Ye wolde be callyd a maker,
And make moche lyke Jake Raker]
i. e. You would be called a composer of verses, or poet, and you compose much in the style of Jack Raker. So again our author;
“Set sophia asyde, for euery Jack Raker
And euery mad medler must now be a maker.”
Speke, Parrot, v. 165. vol. ii. 8.
“He maketh vs Jacke Rakers;
He sayes we ar but crakers,” &c.
Why come ye nat to Courte, v. 270. vol. ii. 35.
So too in the comedy by Nicholas Udall, entitled Ralph Royster Doyster;