Thou gets not this, carle, thocht thou suld be hangit.

PAUPER.

Gif me my groat, weill bund into ane clout[544],

Or, be Goddis breid[545], Robin sall beir ane rout[546].

[Heir sall thay fecht with silence; and Pauper sal cast down the buird, and cast the relicts in the water.

DILIGENCE.

Quhat kind of daffing[547] is this al day?

Swyith, smaiks[548]! out of the feild, away!

Intill ane presoun put them sone,

Syne hang them, quhen the Play is done.