The Gentle Craft A discovrse Containing many matters of Delight, very pleasant to be read: Shewing what famous men have beene Shoomakers in time past in this Land, with their worthy deeds and great Hospitality. Declaring the cause why it is called the Gentle Craft: and also how the Proverbe first grew; A Shoemakers sonne is a Prince borne. T. D. [i.e. Thomas Deloney] |
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[My freinds, I pray you list to me]
My freinds, I pray you list to me,
And marke what S. Hughs bones shall be.
And marke what S. Hughs bones shall be.
First a Drawer and a Dresser,
two Wedges, a more & a lesser:
A pretty blocke three inches high,
in fashion sqared like a Die,
Which shall be called by proper name,
a Heele blocke, the very same.
A Hand-leather and a Thumb-leather likewise,
to pull out shoo-threed we must despise;
The Needle and the Thimble,
shal not be left alone
The Pincers and the pricking Aule
and the rubbing Stone.
The Aule steele and Tackes,
the Sow-haires beside,
The Stirrop holding fast,
while we sowe the Cow-hide,
The whetstone, the stopping sticke,
and the Paring knife:
All this doth belong,
to a Journeymans life.
Our Apron is the Shrine,
to wrap these bones in:
Thus shrowd we Saint Hugh
in gentle Lambes skinne.
two Wedges, a more & a lesser:
A pretty blocke three inches high,
in fashion sqared like a Die,
Which shall be called by proper name,
a Heele blocke, the very same.
A Hand-leather and a Thumb-leather likewise,
to pull out shoo-threed we must despise;
The Needle and the Thimble,
shal not be left alone
The Pincers and the pricking Aule
and the rubbing Stone.
The Aule steele and Tackes,
the Sow-haires beside,
The Stirrop holding fast,
while we sowe the Cow-hide,
The whetstone, the stopping sticke,
and the Paring knife:
All this doth belong,
to a Journeymans life.
Our Apron is the Shrine,
to wrap these bones in:
Thus shrowd we Saint Hugh
in gentle Lambes skinne.
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