And handle the sworde and buckler,

And this quarter-staffe also.

If I mete with a gentylman or yeman,

I am not afrayde to loke hym upon,

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Nor boldly with him to carpe;

If he speake any wordes to me,

He shall have strypes two or thre,

That shal make his body smarte.

But, maisters, to shew you the matter