The ii Acte. The v Sceane.

Diccon.

Diccon. Here will the sporte begin; if these two once may meete,

Their chere, durst lay money, will prove scarsly sweete.

My gammer, sure, entends to be uppon her bones

With staves, or with clubs, or els with coble stones.

Dame Chat, on the other syde, if she be far behynde 5

I am right far deceived; she is geven to it of kynde.[694]

He that may tarry by it awhyle, and that but shorte,

I warrant hym, trust to it, he shall see all the sporte.

Into the towne will I, my frendes to vysit there,

And hether straight againe to see thend of this gere. 10

In the meane time, felowes, pype upp; your fiddles, I saie, take them,

And let your freyndes here such mirth as ye can make them.

Hodge.

Hodge. Sym Glover, yet gramercy! cham meetlye well sped now,

Thart even as good a felow as ever kyste a cowe!

Here is a thonge [695] in dede, by the masse, though ich speake it;

Tom Tankards great bald curtal, I thinke, could not breake it!

And when he spyed my neede to be so straight and hard, Cii

Hays lent me here his naull,[696] to set the gyb forward,[697] 6

As for my gammers neele, the flyenge feynd go weete!

Chill not now go to the doore againe with it to meete.

Chould make shyfte good inough and chad a candels ende;

The cheefe hole in my breeche with these two chil amende. 10