Chat. Who it was? a false theefe, 50
That came like a false foxe my pullaine[731] to kil and mischeefe!
Bayly. But knowest thou not his name?
Chat. I know it; but what than?
It was that crafty cullyon Hodge, my Gammer Gurtons man.
Bayly. Cal me the knave hether, he shal sure kysse the stockes.
I shall teach him a lesson for filching hens or cocks! 55
D. Rat. I marvaile, Master Bayly, so bleared be your eyes;
An egge is not so ful of meate, as she is ful of lyes:
When she hath playd this pranke, to excuse al this geare,