HODGE

Boy heigh, ho boy, and thou be'st a man draw, Oh heres a blessed moonshine God be thanked, boy is not this goodly weather for barley? I am over head and ears, Oh I have sport in coney I faith, I have almost burst my self with laughing at mistress Barns, she was follow king of her daughter, and I hearing her, put on my fellow Dicks sword and bucklers voice, & his swounds & sbloud words, and led her such a dance in the Dam ke as it passes, here she is quoth I, where quo h she? here quoth I, Oh it hath been a brave here & there night, but Oh what a soft nam tur thing the dirt is? how it would endure my hard to eam ding, and kiss my feet for acquaintance, and how court ous and mannerly were the clods, to make me stumble on lie of purpose to entreat me lie down & rest me, but now and I could find my fellow Dick, I would play the knave with him honestly I faith, Well, I will grope in the dark for him, or isle poke with my staff Like a blind man, to pre vent a ditch. What have I found thee Dick? nay then I am for ye Dick, Where are you Dick? Can ye not tell, come, come you weight on your mistreffe well, come on your ways, I have sought you till I am weary, and called you till I am hoarse, good Lord what a jaunt I have had this night, heigh ho? Fie, fie, I must not kiss my man. Away bawdy man, in truth lle tell your master. So ho! Whope, whope. Nay mistress Barns, I wish her better, that those joyful days may be turned to joyful nights. No, I scorn that I faith. Drunk, a plague on it, when a man cannot carry his drink well: sbloud I'll stand to it. Whope lend me thy hand Dick, I am fallen into a Well, lend me thy hand, I shall be drowned else. Oh I, I warrant you, isle have fine tricks to cousin them Oh brave, but where about are they? Oh let me alone to grope for cunnies. Who art thou with a pestilence. Fie, fie, I am ashamed of you, would you tempt your mistress to lewdn sse. Shall I indeed Dick? I faith, if I thought no body would see. Then kiss me Dick. Here. Would, would, I have led him into a pond, where art thou Dick? Make a Boat of thy Buckler then, and swim out, are ye so hight with a pox? would you kiss my mistress, cool you there then good Dick Coomes, oh when he comes forth the skirts of his blue coat will drop Like a paint-house, Oh that I could see and not be seen, how he would Spani ell it, and shake himself when he comes out of the pond, but isle be gone, for now heel fight with a fly, if he but buz in his ear. Whose there, Boy? honest Boy, well met, where hast thou been. I met him even now, and he asked me for thee, and he is gone up and down, whoing Like and Owl for thee. Ass, no nor glass, for then it had been Owleglasse, but whose that boy? Then we shall have fine sport, I faith sirrah, le S stand close, and when they have fought about or two, weel run away with the torch, & leave the ̄ to fight darkling, shall we? No sir, honest Hodge: but I pray ye sir did ye not meet with a boy with a Torch, he is run away from me a plague on him. Master hear and make and end, you may kill one and other in jest, and be hanged in earnest. Drunk? he's a beast and he be drunk, theres no man that is a sober man will be drunk, he's a boy and he be drunk. Thus 'tis when a man will not be ruled by his friends, I bade him keep under the lee, but he kept down the weather two bows, I told him he would be taken with a planet, but the wisest of us all may fallen. Hodg, A rope on it. In a Well, I prithee draw up. Oh in a well. Here Dick, Oh I am in the dark, Dick go about, Why is my fellow Dick in the dark with my Mistress. I pray God they be honest, for there may be much knavery in the Dark, faith if I were there, I would have some knavery with them, good master will you carry the torch your self, & give me leave to play the blind man buff with my mistress, But thy fellow Dick Coomes is mightily drunk.