Doctour
doubble_ale.
Thus our dominus
dodkin
Finis.
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| Doctour
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| ALthough I lacke intelligence | ||
| And can not skyll of eloquence | ||
| Yet wyll I do my diligence | ||
| To say sumthing or I go hence | ||
| 5 | Wherin I may demonstrate | |
| The figure gesture and estate | ||
| Of one that is a curate | ||
| That harde is and endurate | ||
| And ernest in the cause | ||
| 10 | Of piuish popish lawes | |
| That are not worth two strawes | ||
| Except it be with dawes | ||
| That knoweth not good from euels | ||
| Nor Gods worde from the Deuels | ||
| 15 | Nor wyll in no wise heare | |
| The worde of god so cleare | ||
| But popishnes vpreare | ||
| And make the pope Gods peare | ||
| And so them-selues they lade | ||
| 20 | Wyth bables that he made | |
| And styll wyll holde his trade | ||
| No man can them perswade | ||
| And yet I dare say | ||
| Ther is no day | ||
| 25 | But that they may | |
| Heare sincerily | ||
| And right truly | ||
| Gods worde to be taught | ||
| If they wolde haue sought | ||
| 30 | But they set at nought | |
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| Christes true doctrine | ||
| And them-selues decline | ||
| To mens ordinaunce | ||
| Which they enhaunce | ||
| 35 | And take in estimation. | |
| Aboue Christes passion | ||
| And so this folish nacion | ||
| Esteme their owne facion | ||
| And all dum ceremonies | ||
| 40 | Before the sanctimonies | |
| Of Christes holy writ | ||
| And thinke their owne wi[t] wit] wi 1548 | ||
| To be far aboue it | ||
| That the scripture to them teachis | ||
| 45 | Or honest men preachis | |
| ¶They folowe perlowes lechis | ||
| And doctours dulpatis | ||
| That falsely to them pratis | ||
| And bring them to the gates | ||
| 50 | Of hell and vtter derkenes | |
| And all by stubborne starkenes | ||
| Putting their full trust | ||
| In thinges that rot and rust | ||
| And papisticall prouisions | ||
| 55 | Which are the deuels dirisions | |
| Now let vs go about | ||
| To tell the tale out | ||
| Of this good felow stout | ||
| That for no man wyll dout | ||
| 60 | But kepe his olde condicions | |
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| For all the newe comyssyons | ||
| And vse his supersticions | ||
| And also mens tradicyons | ||
| And syng for dead folkes soules | ||
| 65 | And reade hys beade-rolles | |
| And all such thinges wyll vse | ||
| As honest men refuse | ||
| But take hym for a cruse | ||
| And ye wyll tell me newes. | ||
| 70 | For if he ons begyn | |
| He leaueth nought therin | ||
| He careth not a pyn | ||
| How much ther be wythin | ||
| So he the pot may wyn | ||
| 75 | He wyll it make full thyn | |
| And wher the drinke doth please | ||
| Ther wyll he take his ease | ||
| And drinke therof his fyll | ||
| Tyll ruddy be his byll | ||
| 80 | And fyll both cup and can | |
| Who is so glad a man | ||
| As is our curate than /? | ||
| I wolde ye knewe it a curate | ||
| Not far without newgate | ||
| 85 | Of a parysh large | |
| The man hath mikle charge | ||
| And none within this border | ||
| That kepeth such order | ||
| Nor one a this syde Nauerne | ||
| 90 | Louyth better the ale-tauerne | |
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| ¶But if the drinke be small | ||
| He may not well withall | ||
| Tush cast it on the wall | ||
| It fretteth out his gall | ||
| 95 | Then seke an-other house | |
| This is not worth a louse | ||
| As dronken as a mouse | ||
| Mon syre gybet a vous | ||
| And ther wyll byb and bouse | ||
| 100 | Tyll heuy be his brouse | |
| Good ale he doth so haunt | ||
| And drynke a due taunt | ||
| That alewiues make ther vaunt | ||
| Of many a peny rounde | ||
| 105 | That sum of them hath founde | |
| And sometyme mikle strife is | ||
| Amonge the alewyfes | ||
| And sure I blame them not | ||
| For wrong it is God wot | ||
| 110 | When this good dronken sot | |
| Helpeth not to empty the pot | ||
| For sumtime he wyll go | ||
| To one and to no mo | ||
| ¶Then wyll the hole rout | ||
| 115 | Upon that one cry out | |
| And say she doth them wronge | ||
| To kepe him all day longe | ||
| From commyng them amonge | ||
| Wherfore I geue councell | ||
| 120 | To them that good drinke sell | |
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| To take in of the best | ||
| Or els they lese their gest | ||
| For he is redy and prest | ||
| Where good ale is to rest | ||
| 125 | And drinke tyll he be drest | |
| When he his boke shulde study | ||
| He sitteth there full ruddy | ||
| Tyll halfe the day be gone | ||
| Crying fyll the pot Ione | ||
| 130 | And wyll not be alone | |
| But call sum other one | ||
| At wyndowe or at fenestre | ||
| That is an idell ministre | ||
| As he him-selfe is | ||
| 135 | Ye know full well this | |
| The kinde of carion-crowes | ||
| Ye may be sure growes | ||
| The more for carion stinking | ||
| And so do these in drinking | ||
| 140 | This man to sum mens thinking | |
| Doth stay hym muche vpon the kyng | ||
| As in the due demaunding | ||
| Of that he calleth an head-peny | ||
| And of the paskall halpeny. | ||
| 145 | For the cloth of corpus_Christy | |
| Four pens he claymith swiftely | ||
| For which the sexton and he truly | ||
| Did tog by the eares earnestly | ||
| Saying he can not the king well paye | ||
| 150 | If all such driblars be take away | |
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| Is not this a gentill tale | ||
| Of our doctour doubble_ale | ||
| Whose countenaunce is neuer pale | ||
| So wel good drinke he can vphale | ||
| 155 | ¶A man of learning great | |
| For if his brayne he wolde beat | ||
| He coulde within dayes fourtene | ||
| Make such a sermon as neuer was sene | ||
| I wot not whether he spake in drinke | ||
| 160 | Or drinke in him how do ye thinke? | |
| I neuer herde him preach God wot | ||
| But it were in the good ale-pot | ||
| Also he sayth that fayne he wolde | ||
| Come before the councell if he coulde | ||
| 165 | For to declare his learning | |
| And other thinges concerning | ||
| Goodly councels that he coulde geue | ||
| Beyond all measure ye may me beleue | ||
| His learning is exceding | ||
| 170 | Ye may know by his reading | |
| Yet could a cobblers boy him tell | ||
| That he red a wrong gospell, | ||
| Wherfore in-dede he serued him well | ||
| He turned himselfe as round as a bell | ||
| 175 | And with loud voyce began to call | |
| Is [t]here no constable among you all, there] chere 1548 | ||
| To take this knaue that doth me troble? | ||
| With that all was on a hubble_shubble | ||
| There was drawing and dragging | ||
| 180 | There was lugging and lagging | |
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| And snitching and snatching | ||
| And ketching and catching | ||
| And so the pore ladde | ||
| To the Counter they had | ||
| 185 | Some wolde he shuld be hanged | |
| Or els he shulde be wranged | ||
| Some sayd it were a good turne | ||
| Such an heretyke to burne | ||
| Some sayde this and some sayd that | ||
| 190 | And som dyd prate they wist not what | |
| Some did curse and some did ban | ||
| For chafing of oure curate than | ||
| He was worthy no lesse | ||
| For vexing with his pertnesse | ||
| 195 | A gemman going to Messe, | |
| Did it become a cobblers boy | ||
| To shew a gemman such a toy? | ||
| ¶But if it were wel wayde | ||
| Ye shuld fynde I am afrayde | ||
| 200 | That the boy were worthy | |
| For his reading and sobrietie | ||
| And iudgement in the veritie | ||
| Among honest folke to be | ||
| A curate rather then he. | ||
| 205 | For this is knowen for certentie | |
| The boy doth loue no papistry | ||
| And our Curate is called no doubte | ||
| A papist london thoroughout. | ||
| And truth is it they do not lye, | ||
| 210 | It may be sene wyth halfe an eye. | |
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| For if there come a preacher, | ||
| Or any godly teacher | ||
| To speake agaynst his trumpery | ||
| To the alehouse goth he by and by, | ||
| 215 | And there he wyl so much drinke | |
| Tyll of ale he doth so stinke, | ||
| That whether he go before or behynde / | ||
| Ye shall him smell without the winde | ||
| For when he goeth to it he is no hafter | ||
| 220 | He drinketh dronke for two dayes after | |
| With fyll the cuppe Ione, | ||
| For all this is gone | ||
| Here is ale alone | ||
| I say for my drinking | ||
| 225 | Tush, let the pot be clinking | |
| And let vs mery make, | ||
| No thought wyll I take / | ||
| For though these fellowes crake | ||
| I trust to se them slake | ||
| 230 | And some of them to bake | |
| In smithfelde at a stake | ||
| And in my Parysh be some / | ||
| That if the tyme come | ||
| I feare not wyll remember | ||
| 235 | (Be it august or september | |
| October or Nouember | ||
| Or moneth of December) | ||
| To fynde both wood and timber | ||
| To burne them euery member | ||
| 240 | And goth to borde and bed | |
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| At the signe of the_kinges_head. | ||
| ¶And let these heretikes preach | ||
| And teach what they can teach | ||
| My parish I know well | ||
| 245 | Agaynst them wyll rebell | |
| If I but once them tell | ||
| Or geue them any warning | ||
| That they were of the new learning. | ||
| For with a worde or twayne | ||
| 250 | I can them call agayne | |
| And yet by the Messe | ||
| Forgetfull I was | ||
| Or els in a slumber | ||
| There is a shrewde nomber | ||
| 255 | That curse[d]ly do comber cursedly] cursely 1548 | |
| And my pacience proue | ||
| And dayly me moue | ||
| ¶For some of them styll | ||
| Continew wyll | ||
| 260 | In this new way | |
| Whatsoeuer I saye | ||
| ¶It is not long ago | ||
| Syns it chaunsed so | ||
| That a buriall here was | ||
| 265 | Without dirige or Masse | |
| But at the buriall | ||
| [T]hey song a christmas carall they] chey 1548 | ||
| By the Masse they wyll mar all | ||
| If they continew shall / | ||
| 270 | Some sayd it was a godly hearing | |
| And of their hartes a [gay chering] lower margin trimmed | ||
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| Some of them fell on weping | ||
| In my church I make no leasing | ||
| They harde neuer the lyke thing | ||
| 275 | Do ye thinke that I wyll consent | |
| To these heretikes entent | ||
| To haue any sacrament | ||
| Ministred in English? | ||
| By them I set not a rysh | ||
| 280 | So long as my name is hary_George | |
| I wyll not do it spight of theyr gorge. | ||
| Oh Dankester Dancastre "Dankester, Dancastre" probably denote a proper name 'Dan Caster' | ||
| None betwene this and Lancaster. | ||
| Knoweth so much my minde. | ||
| 285 | As thou my speciall frynde | |
| It wolde do the much good | ||
| To wash thy handes in the bloude | ||
| Of them that hate the messe. | ||
| Thou couetest no lesse | ||
| 290 | So much they vs oppresse | |
| Pore priestes doubtlesse | ||
| And yet what than | ||
| There is not a man | ||
| That soner can, | ||
| 295 | Perswade his parishons | |
| From such condicions | ||
| Then I perse I | ||
| For by and by | ||
| I can [t]hem conuert them] chem 1548 | ||
| 300 | To take my parte | |
| Except a fewe | ||
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| That hacke and hew / | ||
| And agaynst me shew | ||
| What they may do | ||
| 305 | To put me to | |
| Some hynderaunce | ||
| And yet may chaunce | ||
| The bisshops visitour, | ||
| Wyll shewe me fauour | ||
| 310 | And therfore I | |
| Care not a fly, | ||
| For ofte haue they / | ||
| Sought by some way | ||
| To bring me to blame | ||
| 315 | And open shame / | |
| But I wyll beare them out | ||
| In spight of their snout | ||
| And wyll not ceasse | ||
| To drinke a pot the lesse | ||
| 320 | Of ale that is bygge | |
| Nor passe not a fygge | ||
| For all their malice | ||
| Away the mare quod walis / | ||
| I set not a whitinge | ||
| 325 | By all their writing, | |
| For yet I deny nat | ||
| The Masses priuat | ||
| Nor yet forsake | ||
| That I of a cake | ||
| 330 | My maker may make | |
| ¶But harke a lytle harke / | ||
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| And a few wordes marke | ||
| Howe this caluish clarke / | ||
| For his purpose coulde warke | ||
| 335 | There is an honest man: | |
| That kepte an olde woman | ||
| Of almes in hyr bed | ||
| Liyng dayly beddered | ||
| Which man coulde not I say | ||
| 340 | Wyth popishnes a_way | |
| But fayne this woman olde | ||
| Wolde haue Messe if she coulde | ||
| The which this priest was tolde | ||
| He hearing this anone | ||
| 345 | As the goodman was gone | |
| Abrode aboute his busines | ||
| Before the woman he sayd Messe | ||
| And shewed his prety popishnes | ||
| Agaynst the goodmans wyll | ||
| 350 | Wherfore it is my skyll | |
| That he shulde him endight | ||
| For doing such dispight | ||
| As by his popish wyle | ||
| His house wyth Masse defyle | ||
| 355 | ¶Thus may ye beholde | |
| This man is very bolde / | ||
| And in his learning olde | ||
| Intendeth for to syt | ||
| I blame him not a whyt | ||
| 360 | For it wolde vexe his wyt | |
| And cleane agaynst his earning | ||
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| To folow such learning | ||
| As now-a_dayes is taught | ||
| It wolde sone bring to naught | ||
| 365 | His olde popish brayne | |
| For then he must agayne | ||
| Apply him to the schole | ||
| And come away a fole: | ||
| For nothing shulde he get | ||
| 370 | His brayne hath bene to het | |
| And with good ale so wet | ||
| Wherfore he may now iet | ||
| In feldes and in medes | ||
| And pray vpon his beades | ||
| 375 | For yet he hath a payre | |
| Of beades that be right fayre | ||
| Of corall / gete, or ambre | ||
| At home within his chambre | ||
| For in matins or Masse, | ||
| 380 | Primar and portas | |
| And pottes and beades | ||
| His lyfe he leades | ||
| ¶But this I wote | ||
| That if ye nota | ||
| 385 | How this idiota | |
| Doth folow the pota | ||
| I holde you a grota | ||
| Ye wyll rede by rota | ||
| That he may were a cota | ||
| 390 | In cocke_lo[r]els bota lorels] losels 1548 | |
| ¶Thus the durty doctour | ||
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| The popes owne proctour | ||
| Wyll bragge and boost | ||
| Wyth ale and a toost | ||
| 395 | And lyke a rutter | |
| Hys latin wyll vtter | ||
| And turne and tosse him | ||
| Wyth tu non possum | ||
| Loquere latinum | ||
| 400 | This alum finum | |
| Is bonus then vinum | ||
| Ego volo quare | ||
| Cum tu drinkare | ||
| Pro tuum caput, | ||
| 405 | Quia apud | |
| Te propiciacio | ||
| Tu non potes facio | ||
| Tot quam ego | ||
| Quam librum tu lego, | ||
| 410 | Caue de me | |
| Apponere te | ||
| Iuro per deum | ||
| Hoc est lifum meum | ||
| Quia drinkum stalum | ||
| 415 | Non facere malum | |
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Thus our dominus
dodkin
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| Wyth ita vera bodkin | ||
| Doth leade his lyfe | ||
| Which to the alewife | ||
| 420 | Is very profitable | |
| It is pytie he is not able | ||
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| To mayntayne a table | ||
| For beggers and tinkers | ||
| And all lusty drinkers | ||
| 425 | Or captayne or beddle | |
| Wyth dronkardes to meddle | ||
| Ye cannot I am sure / | ||
| For keping of a cure | ||
| Fynde such a one well | ||
| 430 | If ye shulde rake hell | |
| ¶And therfore nowe | ||
| No more to you / | ||
| Sed perlegas ista, | ||
| Si velis Papista, | ||
| 435 | Fare-well and a_dewe | |
| With a whirlary whewe | ||
| And a tirlary typpe | ||
| Beware of the whyppe. | ||
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Finis. |