God save all this company !
But am not I a jolly fryer ?
For I can shote both farre and nere,
And handle the sworde and bucklèr,
And this quarter-staffe also.
If I mete with a gentylman or yemàn, {343}
I am not afrayde to loke hym upon,
Nor boldly with him to carpe ;
If he speake any wordes to me,
He shall have strypes two or thre,