SENSUAL APPETITE

well hyet quod hykman when y to he smote His wyffe on the buttockꝭ with a bear pot Aha now God even foal God even It is even the knave that I mean Hast thou done thy babelyng Than ̄ hold down thy heed like a pretty ma ̄ & take my blessing Benedicite / I grau ̄ to to the / this ꝑdo And gyve the absolution For thy sooth saws / stand up Jack daw I be shrew thy faders soon ¶Make room sirs and let us be merry with huffa galand sing tyrll on the berry, And let the wide world wind Sing fryska Jolly with heigh trolyloly For I see well it is but a folly For to have a sad mind ¶For rather than I would use such folly To pray to study or be pope holy I had as life be dead By goggys body I tell you true I speak as I think now else I be shrew Even my next fellows head ¶Master humanity sir be your leave I were right loath you to grieve Though I do him despise For if you knew him as well as I you would not use his company Nor love him in no wise ¶Though he look never so well I promise you he hath a shrewd sme ¶Hark sirs here you not how boldly He calleth me knave again by policy The devil pull of his skin I would he were hanged by the through For by the mess I love him not we two can never a gre I am content sir with you to tarry And I am for you so necessary you can not live without me I am called sensual apetyte All creatures in me delight I comfort the wyttys five The astyng smelling & hearing I refresh the sight and feeling To all creatures a live For when the body wexith hungry For lack of food or else thirsty Than with drinks plesaund I restore him out of pain And oft refresh nature again with delicate vyand with plesaunde found of armonye The hearing alway I satysfy I dare this well report The smelling with sweet odour And the sight with Pleasant fygovr And colours I comfort The feeling that is so Pleasant Of every member foot or hand what pleasure therein can be By the touching of so to & harden Of hight or cold nought in regard Except it come by me Marry avant knave I the defy Died nature for bide him my continued ̄ pany what sayest thou thereto speak openly No by God I am right sure For he knoweth well no creature without me can live one day Now go knave go I beshrew thy heart The devil send the forward Now by my troth I marvel greatly That ever you would use the company So Much of such a knave For if you do no neither thing But ever study and to be musing As he would have you it will you bring At the last unto your graven ¶you should ever study principal For to comfort your life natural with metis and drinks dilycate And other pastimes & pleasures a monge Dau ̄ sing laughing or Pleasant song This is meet for your estate ¶well than will you go with me To a tavern where you shall see Good pastaunce & at your liberty Have what so ever you will ¶Counterfeit ̄ pany quoth a / you y to I shall point devise And also do you good and true service And thereto I plight my truth And if that I ever forsake you I pray God the devil take you ¶A myschyfe on it my tongue loo will tryp sometime what so ever I do But you wot what I mean well ¶Marry at the door even here by if we call any that nge on hie The taverner will answer ¶Marry I will / How taverner how why dost thou not appear ¶Than I be shrew y e page of thine age Come hither knave for thine advantage why makest thou hit so tow Marry thus here is a gentleman I say That neither eat nor drank this day Therefore ell me I the pray if thou have any good wine I wot thou art not without good wine But here is a gentylma ̄ hath list to dine Canst thou get him any good meet As for capons you can get none The kings taker took up eke one I wot well there is none to get you sir it is a fellow that never faylys But Can ̄ st get my master a dish of quam less small birds swallows or wagtaylꝭ They be light of dygestyon. For physyk puttyth this reason thereto Because those birds fle to & from And be continual moving ¶By my troth than do you best Even after my mind But you must have more company. ¶why will you follow my counsel ¶Than we will have little nell A ꝓper wench she daunsith well And Jane with the black lace we will have bouncing Bess also And two or three proper wenchis more Right feyr and smotter of face Then it is best sir you make hast For you shall spend here but time I ̄ wast And do no neither thing I pray you be it for I am ready No man better Willing ¶Now cousin experyens as I may say you are right welcome to this country without any feigning. ¶How Say you master humanity I prey you have you not be mere And had good recreation ¶what I shrew the what haste hast thou That thou speakest so hie ¶It seemeth by thy face so to do But my master will have meet also what so ever it cost By cause thou lookest for a reward One thing for the I have p ̄ pared That here I shall the gyffe Thou shalt have a knauys skin For to put thy body theri For term of thy life ¶A bide torn ones a gain hark what I Say yet there is a neither thing would do well at our masters washing By God I would a pint of that were p wryd vyn upon thy pate Before all this presence ¶But look yet thou remember uerydell That I spoke of full ere ¶what art thou here I see well I The more kn is the worse company ¶why horson what eylyst at me ¶Marry auau ̄ to knave I make God avow I think my self as continued ̄ nynge as thou And that shall I prove shortly I shall put the a question now come never Let me see how well thou canst answer How spellest this word tom Cuppele In true a tografye ¶you I tell y again yet / tom couꝑ how spell list it Lo he hath for got you may see The First word of his a b c. Hark foal hark I will teach the P. a. pa. to. . r. er. do to together tom cuppele is not this a soar matter Loo here you may see him ꝓuyd a foal He had more need to go to scole Than to come hither to clatter ¶why goggis soul will you so shortly Break pointment with yonder company where you should come to supper I trust you will not break ꝓmys so ¶Than will I go show them what you Say ¶Than ̄ a Due for a while I tell you plain But I ꝓmyse you wha ̄ I come a gain I shall make yonder knauys twain To repent and be sorry Goggꝭ naylys I have paid so ̄ of the ̄ I tro For I was at a shrewd fray you I have slain them every man Save them that ran away you by goggꝭ body everyone All that ever were there Than if you have any wit or brain Let us go to the tavern again And make some merry solace Then I shall tell you what we will do Master yngnorans you & he also Shall tarry both Still here And I will go fetched hither a continued ̄ pany That you shall here the ̄ sing as sweetly As they were angellꝭ clear ¶And yet I shall bring hydyr a neither sort Of lustily bluddꝭ to make dysport That shall both dance & Spring And torn clean above y e ground with fryscas & with gambawdꝭ round That all the hall shall ring ¶And y to done with in and hour or twain I shall at the town again Prepare for you a banquet Of metys that be most delicate And most Pleasant drynkꝭ & wines there ate That is possible to get which shall be in a chamber feyre Replete with sote & fragra ̄ to eyre Prepared point devise with damask water made so well That all y House thereof shall smell As it were pardyse ¶And after that if you will touch A feyre wench naked in a couch Of a soft bed of down For to satisfy your wanto ̄ lust I shall apoynt you a trull of trust Not a feyrer in this town ¶And when you have taken your delight And thus satisfied the appetite Of your wyttis five you may Say than I am a servant For you so necessary and Pleasant I trow non such a live ¶At your request so shall I do Lo I am gone now fare well I shall bring them in to this hall And come my self foremast of all And of these reuellis be changed fe mershall And order all thing well Then let us go to y e tavern again There shall we be sure of one or twain Of mynstrellꝭ y to can well play Then will I go in continent And prepare every thing That is metely to be done And for lack of mynstrellꝭ y mean season ̄ Now will we Begin to sing ♫ ¶Now we will here Begin to sing For dance can we nomore For mynstrellꝭ here be all lacking To y e tavern we will therefore ¶Now farewell gentle John ̄ ¶For he saueryth syke a knave ¶Marry thus canst thou tell us yet where is any rose water to get As for minstrel it makes no force you shall see me dance a course without a minstrel be it better or worse Follow a l I will lede a trace