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Phi.
O mercifull lorde god what a company is here mett
what a rablement of rascoles & rackhels haue we here
why soonne thes pernicious practisses wilt thou never forgett
alas Misogonus wilt thou never leaue this geare

Mi.
What doe yow fale in your fustinge fumes at the first
not the worste of vs but for our honestye wt h your selfe will compare

Eu.
Why Misogonus into such lewde languish dare you burst
what not your father a litle can you spare

Mi.
What are yow his spoksman meddle yow wt h your old showes
and he were my father ten tymes heist haue as good as a bringe

Phi.
Stay a while Eupelas I knowe our laboure we shall lose
but yet Ile tell the vnthrift of his detestable dealinge
Calsta this honest company or is this an honest sporte
to be revelinge and bousinge after such a lewde fashion
I thinke hell breake louse when thou gatst ye this porte
foure such thou coudst scase fynde in a whole nashion

Me.
Why father what dishonestye can yow lay to our charge
[Th]ers none of vs woude you should knowe nether theves no[r ho]***

[Phi.]
***[h]erst thou me strumpitt? I? speakst thou so large
*** [o]f my sight quene or Ile cart the by gods [bones]

Oy.
Take hede what yow say master she comes of a good parentage
misvse hir not I tell yow sheis of worshipfull bloude

Li.
What come yow in wt h your seven egges if I cache yow oth vauntage
houlde your pease when year well frende or else ye were as good

Sr.
What if this gentlewoman and your sonne I haue maried
may they not then come together wt hout any offence

Phi.
Ide rather thou wert hanged theife & he to his graue caried
thou to marye him (varlat) without my licens

Eu.
Hast thou maried him preist then vnknitt me this knott
darst thou kepe company with another mans wife
thou abhominable sodomit thou execrable sott
so god shall iudge me pild Jacke its pittye of thy life

Sr.
Why not Sr as longe as he him selfe is in place
whatsoever I doe proceds of pure loue
I doe but what I shoulde doe thats a cleare case
to loue all & hate none it doth prelatts behoue.

Eu.
Dost thou but what thou shouldst doe yu Idolatrous beste
shouldst thou be the ringleader in dauncinge this while
A good minister would be at church now attendinge one gods heaste
Of all wreches that ever I knewe thou art most vile

Mi.
Art thou so cocked againe what hast thou to doe to speake
the preist shall live beside the prate till thy belly ake

Phi.
Sausy boy dost thou thinke to put vs to wreke
Yf thou dost not amende this a drudge Ile the make

Mi.
Doe your best and your worst I care not a pinn for yow I
ile kepe both hir and the rest in mauger your bearde

Eu.
Now of truth ites marvaile the house fall not downe sodeinely
he speakes so outragiously he makes me afrayde

Phi.
Kepe them kepe hogges theife Ile cut the full short
thoust never enioy one jott of my lande

Mi.
With your great wordes I tell yow doe yow greatly me hurt
when your dead let me see who dare me withstande

Phi.
Ile gitt away for god sake rather to them that haue nede
when thou shalt then wistell and be glad go toth carte

Mi.
For god sake mary so might yow doe a good deede
git who you will gitt Ile hate spite of your harte.

Me.
Care not for him husband he speakes but in dotage
he may say what he will he can doe yow no harme

Phi.
O christ how the drevell doth awnswere me in mockadge
a couckstole (sowe) thoust be mad thy tounge for to charme

Mi.
Houlde your handes yow were best and lett hir alone
Wear able to make yow & your too men to faynt

[Or.]
Gods croust both we your selfe and trusty Sr John
we foure could anger him an he were a verye Saynt

[Eu.]
A man were as good met a she beare in ye wood[ds]
[Wit]h hir whelps at hir heles now roringe for h[u]****
****** [stor]ridd vp wt h such a [furious mode] **
[OMITTED]

Phi.
In thy youth thou never hadst such helhoundes at thy backe
thadst other manner of fellowes soonne in thy yonge days

Sr.
That was but bycause discretion he did lacke
its not best for youe sir any of vs to dispraise

Li.
Thers no mischeife as they say cōmonly but a preist at one end
it were thy parte to admonish him his father to obay

Sr.
When soever I mete yow sir looke your head that yow fend
a fart for yow all come Melissa ile away

Me.
I praye yow Philogonus no longer contende
Yow haue geuen them a threde which theil never vntwist

Mi.
Its but a folly in deed wench more wordes to spende
let him say what he will Ile do what I list
Come then lets be gone Ile never strive wt h him more
his lands are myne as sure as a clubb Naue let the world wagge

Oy.
Wele followe to Michole one afore one afore
Ile quaf perhapps first though here I be lagge

Phi.
Did yow ere here of man in more miserye then I
was there ever sily soule that was so contemnede
thers no way but one Eupelas I shall surely dye
my calamities will not sease till my life hath an ende

Eu.
I am as sorye for your case as if it were myne owne
Your anguise & vexation is to me a great smarte
but consider Philogonus to what end should yow grone
seing thers no remedy why should yow take it at your hart.

Phi.
And Eupelas consider if your sonne were like myne
could yow chose but lament and sith very sore

Eu.
I coulde not chose indeed Philogonus I must nedes whine
then he should be such a one I would wish him dead before

Phi.
All yow that loue your children take example by me
lett them haue good doctrine and discipline in youth
correct them be tyme least afterwarde they be
frowarde & contempteous & so bringe yow to great ruth

Li.
Good master yet I pray yow make not tow sorrowes of one
but beare it as patiently as possibly yow may

Eu.
The best is for yow to trust in Christ Jhesus alone
and by faith in his mercy your selfe for to stay

Phi.
Its verye trewe Eupelas in him is all my ioy
if it were not so certes I had done or this longe

Eu.
Be yow sure Philogonus it can not yow greatly anoy
his power in weaknes is ever most stronge.

Phi.
I am sorye that yow Eupelas so often I haue troubled
depart home now I praye yow & make merye wt h your wife

[Eu.]
If I coulde doe yow good I would wish my paynes doubled
but fare yow well my prayers for yow shalbe rife

**
*ett the home also Liturgus Ile will followe thee straigh[t]
** greife here to the Lord in a dolefull ditty [will I vow]

Li.
Swete Mr your selfe doe not over much frett.
at your cōmaundement I am readye I will goe my ways nowe.


The songe to the tune of Labondolose hoto

Exit Philogonus.