The Fall of the Whore of Babylon

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A Ballet Declaringe the fal of the whore of babylone intytuled Tye thy mare tom boye with other and there-vnto anexid a prologe to the reders

Apocalyps .xviii

Alas alas that great syty babylon which was clothed in Rayes purpel and skarlet and decked with gold precyous stones and perells for at one howre is her iudgement come and her grete ryches brought to naught

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W, k. To the Reader.

WHen that I ha[r]d hard] had 1548 (deare reader) of the great ouer-throes whyche the howre of babylon had taken, and partli perseuid how manfullye she was be ####ab#### sett or campt on euery syde with moste valiant and chrysten waryors me-thoughte I colde not for the loue which I bare vnto the truth stand stil and Idly to behold the[m] them] the 1548, considering also wyth howe miche Ioye and gladnes of hart the captains of this army hath reseued the commandement of the lord sent vnto them by Iohn his embasator which commandeth them that thei shuld no longer tryffell nor dallye with thes citeze[n]s, but boldli to skal ther walles and manfullye to subdue them, Rewardynge them, As they haue deserued, etc. Powre in dowbell, into the cup that she hath filled vnto you Apocalips x.

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Yt made me so much the bolder to sett my-selfe forwarde in this battell, trustynge that all-thoughe I be but an vnworthy sowdyer of Iesus christe, they wil yet bere wythe my rude wekenes or at the leaste accepte my good-will and mynde for althoughe (for lacke of knoleg) I can not handell my weapons so hansomly as those whiche haue ben daily practised in them yet to declare my-selfe a trewe-harted soudier to my power will (in this battel) take no skorne, nether it be ashamed to gether together som of the pelets and wepons that this cite hath of so long tyme beten and killed vs with-al, and lay them vpon hepes that thei mai be so mich the redier at their hands w[ho]who] with 1548 can tel (betterbetter] bettter 1548 then I) how to bestow them in the beting down of our enimies and for so mich as the gretest multitude hath ben of so long time blinded in loue with the laws and constitucions

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of thes false and vngodly citisens, that they can not now perceue the bryght morninge-starre which hath apered and doth yet dalyi apere vnto them I wold exorte all suche as haue receued ther preste-money of christ our hed-captayne which is a constant faythe in his blode to lay now hold on the armur and wepons of god (which is the gospel) that we mai al to ####ab#### gether come into this filde, and ther eueri man as he shalbe apointed and called to fyghte, a ####ab#### gaynste satan (the captayne of our enymyes and all his powr perseuinge now his kingdome to be in daunger beginneth to sett oute his stremers and blo with-out his trompets thinkinge by that police to fer the ost of the lord but now in our mercheng forward let vs beware and tak good hide that aboue al things breke not our arai but kepe our-selues in good order against al the assaltes

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or onsets that they shal hap to geue vs (that is) to lede a godly life and conuersacion for ther be a certayn whyche hath craftli crept into our host and haue professed the[m]-seluesthem] the 1548 tru and faythful souders when indede the haue proued to the contrary The possesse the truth with mothes but in the deds the vtterly deny yt. and do it daily for the leue this arai and good order whiche I before spake of. and runneth abrode some arowing and a ####ab#### whore-hunting, some a ####ab#### fighting brawling swering dising carding and vnresonabel rioting some geuen to insaciable couetousnes with a great mani of other mischeues by the meanes wherof the haue broght so il a report vpon the hol host of the lord that our enimies whiche wher before easye to be reformed ar bi your euel exampels in a maner hardened against the truth and therfore ar al such sowders worthie to be excomunycated out of this armi vntil ther be sum in them euident tokens of amendment for

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we haue no nede of ani such sowdiers as long as the lord ys on our side for yf the gospel [aide vs]aide vs] 1548 omits we fle not back but stand by our wepons, and kepe the a ####ab#### raye which christ our hed-captaine hath set vs in then haue we noo nede to fere if men [in]in] 1548 omits so many whings happen to breke in on euery side vpon vs for he is a ####ab#### bell with turning of his hand to put them al to flyght and vtterly to consume them Yf god be on our syd how then can preuaill against vs. hauing therfore so sure a protector and defendor at al times to trust vnto what shulde then fere vs to prosyde in our warfar agaynste thes vnfaithful babylonians who althoughe the lie lurking in ther holds castels and dennes (that being lyke feint-harted cowards afraid to skirmish or to tri ther manhed with good wepons [ye]tyet] it 1548 ar they not in this meane-time fre from working of mischeu your harts dayli aper[e]thapereth] aeperth 1548

apereth: =appair, 'impair, injure' for [n]ow that they se thei can not make your pertyperty: =party good to com face to face and to

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trye ther cause they haue inuented a nother praity polyce, and that is this to bring the captaynes of the lordes hoste in an euel name or as yt were in a mortal hatred with ther sowdyers and shucheshuche: =such as ar vnder the[m]them] the 1548 A prety polycy. satan hath now beinge ther grawn[d]e-captaynegrawnde] grawne 1548 sent a ####ab#### brode his crafty spies in-to euery corner whiche dothe parswade the ingnorant and rude sowdyers that ther captayns dothe seke all that they can to faymyshe the[m]them] the 1548 and to take from them al thyngs that ar necessary for them that they may ther dye lyke brent bestes that is to saye our stiffe-necked pharyseys I meane to bringe our Kynge and his counsel in an euel name a ####ab#### monge your subiectes and commons. Runneth a ####ab#### brod in-to euery towne and taueren betyng in-to the i[g]noranteignorante] innorante 1548 peoples hedes that the hier powres with your statutes yngnacionsyngnacions: an error for ymaginacions?

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And other of this new lerning with ther bokes balatts and songes goeth about no-thing elles but to destroy and take a ####ab#### way all godly lawes and ordynances as baptym matrimony and such-like which wicked persuasions often-tymes causethe many to ryse a ####ab#### gainst there rulers whom they owste to obey in al thinges Exampelles ar to euident Roma, xiii. and not to resiste vpon payne of damnation as paul plainly afirmeth to the Romans where he saith let euery soul submit him-selfe vnto the octorite of the hier powers for there is no power but of god Obai the rulers not only for fere but by ####ab#### cause of conciens. who-so therfore resisteth them resysteth the ordy[n]ance of god and reseueth to them-selues dampnation this be the very wordes of .S. paul writen in the .xiii chapiter to the Roma. bi the with with: =which? place and many other mai al men perseue how far the wicked papiste haue in al rages swarued fro the truth and specyal

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they in our time for neuer were the pharysies in the tyme of christ by the tenth parte so wicked wych sought like-wise by al ways and meanes that they cold to fere the peple from christ and his doct[r]indoctrin] doctin 1548 whose hard and stony harts he wilwil: =well perseuing sessed not to cal them scribes pharysis ypocrites painted sepulkres aders a generacion of vepers and blind g[y]dsgyds] guds 1548

Mathew . x. xxiii. with with: =which? locked vp the kingdom of heuen be ####ab#### fore men but nowe to my pourpose considering the wrong interpretacions that this wicked and vngodlye papistes do gather as wel of the moste godly statuts and lawes set forth by the kinges magesty, as of other bokes balates songes I take ocacion gentel reder acording vnto this smal talent which I haue reseued of the lord to set forth this simpel preface in the defence of this rude and raged rime folowing with al other that ar consonant and

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agreing to the scriptures to put my weke brethern that ar not as yet dom to the knoleg of the truth in remembrance that we do not therin condemne anye godly lawe but wold gladly wishe that that were extoled and mangnyfyedmangnyfyed: =magnified as to haue the souper of the lord that worthye memori of his deth and passion ofte and reuerently vsed, baptym to be ordered as the apostels dyd leue yt, marieng to be had acording to paules consel and in honor among al men As well prystes as other for the[n]then] them 1548 shal the not haue so muche of other mens. and that the Gospel maye be sinseerly taght and preched for that was the comma[n]dement which christ gaue vnto his Apostles before he assended vnto his father sayeng al powre is now geuen me in heuen and in erth go therfore saith he into al partes of the worlde and preache the gospel and as many as do beleue and are babtysed shal be saued but we fynde not in all the whole Scrypturesbut we fynde not in all the whole Scryptures] but we fynde not in all the whole Scryptures

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but we fynde not in all the whole scripturs 1548

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that euer he commanded any of them to say masse or to set vp stockes and stones and to make the peple beleue in the fylthy tradicions of mens inuencions, as water, salt, bedes bowes, belles, with such other bagag and therfore ought all true Christen men without ceasing to praye vnto the lorde that he wold vouchsafe of his greate mercy to helpe and strenghten our noble kynge with all his godly counselers in takinge away of all suche popisshe constitucions which hath bene the destruction of many soules and to the great hinderaunce of his most blessed word for the encrease nowe wherof let vs all with one mynde praye vnto god the father of our lord Iesus christ. whose pease I hartely wysh vnto al them that vnfaynedly loue his testimonies Amen

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The ballet of ty the mare tom boy.

TY the mare, tom boy

Ty the mare tom?

Lesse she straye

From the awaye

Ty the mare tom.

Now good tom bestirre the This is listed by Ringler as the first line of the poem, TP 1228.

This mare loke thou wake her

And do nothing fere the

But boldely go take her.

For some wil outwere the

Do not now forsake her

A rope for her beare the

That comme thou mayst take her.

And ty her good tom boy

Thou must therfore fetche her

That she maye prouyde her

Some els-where to mache her

Perchaunce she wyll hyde her

But se thou well watche her

We can not abyde her

A haulter vpstratche her vpstratche her ='extend to her'; a verb *upstretch is not recorded in OED

Therfore ty her tom boye

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This tom boy to name hym

I will nowe proclayme hym

Although some disdayne hym

And also diffame hym

But what though they blame hym

And seke for to payne hym

Tom troth must we frame him

A fole some men fayne hym

Ty the mare tom boye

This mare now open

I must nedes declare her

Her name to vnloken

To set her and stare her stare ='stare at, cause to be stared at', or perhaps a nonce-form of steer ('set and steer')?

She doth sure betoken

A whore now beware her

For Iohan hath this spoken

Which doth nothyng spare her

Therfore ty her tom boy

In his reuelacions

Ther maye all men spye her

That haue speculacions

And lyste for to trye her

Her yll frequentacions

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Wyll make men defye her

For with exclamacions

Iohn doth so discrye her

Therfore ty her good tom boy

Full sore dothe he treate her

Let she now defende her

Or els somwher get her

That she may amende her

For we wyll so frette her

She shall all to ####ab#### rende her

To harken now let her

And to vs attende her

Ty the mare tom boy

O vnshamfaste harlot

So proudly arayed

In purple and scarlet

Thou art now dismayed

Of euery varlot

Thou madeste vs afrayde

Gods worde our true marlot marlot: =marlet, 'martin or martlet'?

Hath the nowe bewrayed

Ty the mare tom boy

In castels and towers

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Thou were euer walled

Great kinges to thy wors

Thou hast euer called

Thy feldes with theyr flours

And parkes that were paled

With all thy strong dowers

From the are nowe fa[y]led fayled] fauled 1548

Ty the mare tom boy

Thy cofers were fylled

With riches and treasure

Thy chambers were d[y]lled dylled] delled 1548dylled ='decked, adorned'; see OED s.v. dill v3

With sylkes of great val[oy]r valoyr] valyor 1548valyor: valoir seems to be the word intended, although valour would give a better rhyme; for the phrase 'of great valour' (='material value'), see OED s.v. valour n, 3b

Thy red-dere were kylled

And slayne out of measure

Thus poore-men were pylled

To mainteyne thy pleasure

Ty the mare tom boy

The fall of the market

Thy marchauntes bewayleth

Their wares no man lackeit

Theyr fyne flower fayleth

In sackes maye they seke it

From ingland it sayleth

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Here longer to darke yt. darke ='lie in the dark, lie hid or unseen'; see OED s.v. dark v, 6

Yt no-thing av[ai]leth. availeth] avialeth 1548

Ty the mare tom boye.

The shippe-men that spied,

The [w]all of the cytie. wall] shall 1548

A ####ab#### farr of they cried.

Lamentynge with pitye.

And saye now ys fyred.

Grett babyll so fittye. fittye ='proper, nice'; see OED s.v. fitty adj. 1

Alas then the[y] cryed. they] the 1548

Consumed now ys she

Ty the mare tom boy.

When preistes saw the crased.

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Ther crownes then they skratched

And were so adased,

Their sete downe they dashed sete: =seat

And as thei stil gased,

For fere ther tethe gnashed.

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The lorde is nowe raysed.

That hath them thus lashed

Ty the mare tom boy,

For he sent them preachers

And they were disdayne[d] disdayned] disdayneh 1548

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To dethe the true techers

Were alwaye constrained.

And [by] this-lyke horsse-lec[h]ers by] 1548 omits; lechers] lecbers 1548this-lyke horsse-lec[h]ers ='rapacious people like this'; horsse-lec[h]ers is a nonce-spelling to rhyme with techers (see OED s.v. horse-leech n)

The lorde was blasphemed

But marke now ye mechers mechers: =michers, 'sneak-thieves, panders, truants'

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How well ye haue gayned

Ty the [m]are tom boy.

His laws when he sent you.

Bothe Ioyes Ioly,

Lyke mad-men ye rent you

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Blasphemynge his body

Ye shulde now repent you

And therfore be sory.

Ned[e]s must ye content you Nedes] Neds 1548

Yt ys but a folye

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Ty the mare tom boy.

Bothe pistells and gospells, pistells: =epistles

Ye alway obskured

To mayntayne fatt mossels mossels: =morsels, 'tit-bits'

Ye haue vs alured

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As satons apostels

This ar we assured This: =Thus

Your meulls trymd with tossels, meulls: = mules; tossels: =tassels

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May not now be vsed

Ty the mare tom boye

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Lyke humayne vyces vyces ='designs, figures, devices'? See OED s.v. vice n5

Ye were styll grene dowers were: =wear; dowers ='endowments'?

Of popyshe pastymes

Ye were great alowers

For your deuylyshe crymes.

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Ye muste be now plowers

Or in the se-rymes rymes: =realms?

With ores to be rouers

Ty the mare tom boy.

Ye haue vs detected

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With your false commycyon

So subtell infected

Were ye wythe ambycyon

As men not elected

In chrystes tuycyon,

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But Iustlye regected:

As sons of perdycyon

Ty the mare to[m] boy

Ye serued with knyues

At other mens tables

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And had by theyr vices

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Yonge chylderen in credels

Your great sinfull lyues

For all your fyne sables

I feare with rych diues

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In hell be your stables

Ty thy mare tom boy

With dysshes full denty

So costly ye fared

The pottes went so plentye

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No hote wynes ye spared

Tyll go could ye scanty scanty: =scantly, 'barely', a nonce-spelling for the rhyme-scheme

Your eyes so then stared

Yet poore-men full empty

To speke not ones dared

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Ty the mare tom boy

By other mens fyers

Your childeren were warmed

With cruell desyres

The christen ye armed

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Lyke roarars and criers

In churches ye charmed

Lyke sellers and byers

The whole earth ye fermed

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Ty the mare tom boy

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Your deuelysh dissenti[on]s dissentions] dissentinos 1548

And loude exclamations

With youre false inuencions

Wolde aske long narrations

Your subtyll suspentions

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And wronge accusations

With spitfull pretencions

They nede no probacyons

Ty thy mare tom boye

Ther was neuer treason

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But ye did inuente it

In eares thys to reason thys: =thus?

Ye do yet frequente it

With some ly or leson

Abroade ye forth sent it

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But come ys the season

That ye must repente it

Ty the mare tom boy

Lyke Ioly masse-singers

Ye haue vs deluded

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Your lytell bell-ringers

At them we much mused

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For all your cleane fyngers,

Ye must be a ####ab#### cused,

In that ye were bringers

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Of such wares abused,

Ty the mare tom boy

With lawes so prophane,

That were full vnr[u]ly

Your ashes and palme.

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Mainteined so dulie,

Your darke laten salme, darke ='obscure in meaning, hard to understand'; see OED s.v. dark adj., 6a

This will I assure ye. assure] assurer 1548

Comme wynde or comm calme

It must awaie trulie

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Ty thy mare tom boy

With bocke bell and candell bocke: =book

Ye gaue vs your curses

And wolde vs so handell

That walke shoulde our purses

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Some tyme for to strangell,

With ropes ye wolde trusse vs

No longer nowe dandell,

For we ar past nursses

Ty the mare tom boy

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Yt were greate dispensers

And there-with reseuers

As shepes with sencers,

Good basens and euers

In ves[t]mentes at venters vestmentes] vessmentes 1548venters: =ventures?

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Ye sange many prayers

For them that were lenters lenters ='observers of the Lenten fast'? OED does not record a word *lenter

And to your suche leuers, leuers: =levers, an aphetic form of 'believers'? See OED s.v. lever n2

Ty the mare to[m] boy,

Your veluettes and satten

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By suche trickes ye winned

Betwene masse and mattens

Salte water ye sprenged

Asparges in latten

Forth with them ye singed,

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To call Iacke and wat in

The belles out ye ringed

Ty the mare tom boye

Your fyne waxen tapers

Besides your longe torches,

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With there fumminge vapers,

Caryed before corses

Awaye with clappers,

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And puddels in porches,

With al such-like maters

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T[hat] are of no forces That] Ty 1548

Ty the mare tom boy

Your bedes and your bedroles bedroles ='lists of persons to be specially prayed for' or perhaps 'strings of beads for counting prayers'; see OED s.v. bead-roll n

It was but abusion

Your trendels and trentals

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Went al to confusion

Your oyells and your yemnolls, oyells: =oils; yemnolls: =hymnals, and is perhaps an error for *ymnolls

It was playne delusion

So was your mementoes

To tel the conclusyon

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Ty the mare tom boy

Your deryge so netye, deryge: =dirge; netye: =net, 'bright, clear', a nonce-spelling for the rhyme-scheme (see OED s.v. net adj., 2a)

For sowles hens dic[ea]sed diceased] dicaesed 1548

Your portas so prety portas ='portable breviary'

Wherin ye styll preched

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Withe feates that were fety fety: =feat, 'smart, adroit', a nonce-spelling for the rhyme-scheme (see OED s.v. feat adj., 2)

Ye haue vs defeted defeted ='deprived, dispossessed'; see OED s.v. defeat v, 7b

From gods worde so mety, mety: =meet, 'suitable, proper'

For vs to be teached

Ty the mare tom boy

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Gon is your nasty

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And laten procession

And so must your casty casty: =cast, 'purpose, design' or perhaps 'contrivance, trick', a nonce-spelling for the rhyme-scheme (see OED s.v. cast n, 23, 24a)

That false deare confession

Which was alway apty apty: =apt

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To rayse insurre[c]tion insurrection] insurrertion 1548

Perswading with suertie

To geue vs remissyon

Ty the mare tom boy

At mydnyght to mattens

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Ye came from dormyra dormyra ='sleeping, dormitory'(?), a nonce-form perhaps based on Latin dormire; cf. OED s.vv. dorm(e, dormitory

With lyghtes in youre lantarnes

To se your latina,

Away must your antems

Of Gaude maria

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In latin your seuen psalmes

With salue regina

Ty the mare tom boy

Ye prestes with your presentes presentes ='offerings to God'? See OED s.v. present n2, 2d

Ye must be now lerned

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Your lyes and your legendes legendes ='legendaries'

Ar lyke to be burned

Your picktures with presents

May not be adourned adourned: =adorned

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For all remes and regentes remes: =realms

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Will shortely be turned,

Ty thy mare tom boy

Your god ye longe kepe it god: =God, a reference to the sacrament of the Eucharist?

Yt wexeth now rustye,

And exepte ye strike yt

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Ye wil be all dustye

In no wise now slype yt slype ='neglect, skip'; see OED s.v. slip v1, 21b

But shew your-selfe lusty

For if the mowse [b]yte yt byte] myte 1548

He will eate yt: trust me

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Ty thy mare tom boye

Your cursinge and blessinge,

Your brethinge and blowynge

Your lycking and kissi[n]ge kissinge] kissige 1548

Your mockinge and mowynge

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Your tossinge and tissinge, tissinge: a nonce-reduplication of 'tossinge'

Stroud myscheue in ####ab#### soinge, Stroud: =Strewed

Therfore your false missing, missing ='error, fault'? See OED s.v. missing vbl. n, 3. There may also be a glance at massing, 'the action or practice of celebrating mass'; see OED s.v. massing vbl. n1

Is now a ####ab#### downe throstyng,

Ty thy mare tom boye

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A nende of my balet,

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Anone I wyll make you

With pollax nor sallet pollax: =pole-axe

In no wyse now crake you

For thens by the pallet

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All good men will take you

Locke vp bagge and wallet

And ingland forsake you

Now harken good tom boy

This mare with her baggage

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Away loke thou haue her

And make here no tariage

Lesse ypocrites craue her craue] scraue 1548

Strong cartes for her cariage

She shall haue to saue her

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Let sees make her mariage

For landes wyll depraue her

Away wyth her tom boy

And cleane to despache her

That none may gene-say her gene-say: =gainsay

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Wyth some good poorte mach her poorte ='retinue, train of attendants'? See OED s.v. port n4, 2b

As no doubt ye maye her

Whych wyll so strayght watche her

That if men wolde staye her

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At see they shulde fetche her,

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Ye may so convaye her.

And ther leaue her tom boy

For as she dothe sealle he[r] her] hee 1548sealle: =sail

Betwene france and douer:

And ther doth bewaylle her.

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That she is a rouer,

The carte-wheles may fayll her

Before she come ouer.

Then can she not bayell her, bayell ='liberate on bail'; see OED s.v. bail v1, 2

But be a sea-drouer. sea-drouer ='fishing-boat'? See OED s.v. drover n, 2

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Therfore leaue her tom boy

And in England staye the

Where none shal ones crake the

Nor neuer-more fray the

Ne y[e]t ones for-sake the, yet] yt 1548

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But newly to ray the,

And euer obaye the,

This promyse we make the,

Therfore tari tom boye.

My song some wil mocke it

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I am not ashamed

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The kye to vnlocke yt

I haue not y[e]t framed yet] yct 1548

The truth yet [to] nocke it to] 1548 omitsnocke ='fit (the arrow) to the bowstring ready for shooting'; see OED s.v. nock v, 2

I was myche inflamed

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Now forthe haue I shot yt

Let me not be blamed

For now myche I care not

Althoughe I do end yt

To telle all I dare not

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And then to come sende yt,

But stampe not nor stare not

For it canne not mende yt

Finis quod william kythe

An exortacion to the papists

O papysts repent you O] OA 1548

and for mercy cry you

The last day preuent you

For yt ys full nye you

With gods worde content you

The pops laws defye you

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No lenger absente you

But vnto Christe hye you

For he is a sauiour

That wyll neuer fayle you

Yf ye will not wauer

But mekely bewayle you

Of your misbeauiour

And forthe-with apele you

To his grace and fauour

He wyll surely heale yo[u]

For so hathe he tolde you

By Mathewe his writer his] his hys 1548

And also to bolde you

By luke his inditer

The stories beholde you

Of Paule Iohan and Peter

Men doth it vnfolde you

Both in prose and myter

For all this his kyndnes

Which he doth yet bere you

As men that were mindles

sig: [B8]

Ye rent you and teare you

Therfore of payne endles

Ye had nede to feare you

For it is not blyndnes

At last day shall were you were: =were: ='defend'

The prophetes this telleth

Who-so lyst to rede them

Whych saythe all that swelleth

Oor blyndely proceade the[m] proceade the[m] ='carry on, advance their course'

He that aboue dwelleth

Shal surely outw[e]de them outwede] outwyde 1548outwede: =outweed, 'weed out'; see OED s.v. out-, 15a

Let they that rebelleth

Beware and take h[e]de them hede] hide 1548Note that heed is spelled 'hide' in the prose passage above (signature A3).

For though god forgeued

Many that offended

And also relyued

Shuch as were sore spended Shuch: =Such

Yet some he sore greued

And also condempned

As Iudas which f[e]ded feded] fided 1548

With Christe that asscended

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Therfore now amende you

And shortly confesse you,

To god who may sende you,

His spret to possesse you spret: =sprite, 'spirit'

And also defende you,

That none shal oppresse you none] ndne 1548

We wil reprehende you

Until ye addresse you addresse] addrssesse 1548

Now mekely downe syt you,

And this I exorte you this: =thus

The gospel to get you

And therin to sport you,

Yf that do ones fyt you,

We wolde reporte you,

And this I commyt you

To christe who conforte you

FINIS quod. Wyllyam Kith