Syr, I pray you, be not you master god?

Mery-reporte. No, in good fayth, sonne. But I may say to the

I am suche a man that god may not mysse me. D iii 1006

Wherfore with the god yf thou wouldest have ought done

Tell me thy mynde, and I shall shew yt sone.

Boy. Forsothe, syr, my mynde is thys, at few wordes,

All my pleasure is in catchynge of byrdes, 1010

And makynge of snow-ballys and throwyng the same;

For the whyche purpose to have set in frame,[206]

Wyth my godfather god I wolde fayne have spoken,