CITIE ROVNDS.
[Broomes for old shooes]
Broomes for old Shooes, Pouchrings, Bootes and Buskings
Broomes for old Shooes, Pouchrings, Bootes and Buskings, will
yee buy any new Broome? New Oysters, new Oysters, New new Cockels,
Cockels nye, Fresh Herrings. Will yee buy any straw? Hay yee any Kitchin-stuffe
Maides? Pippins fine, Cherrie ripe. Hay any
Wood to cleaue? Giue eare to the clocke, beware your locke, your fire and your
light, and God giue you good night, one a Clocke.
[I pray you good Mother
]
8.
I pray you good Mother
I pray you good Mother, giue me leaue to play with little Iohn,
to make his Bed, and combe his head, and come againe anon,
or else beate me as you thinke good, for I loue Iohn alone.
[My mistris will not be content
]
9.
My Mistris will not be content
My Mistris will not be content, to take a Iest, as Chaucer
meant, but following stil the womans fashion, allowes it, for the new
translation, for with the word she would not dispence, and yet,
and yet I know the loues the sence.
[I lay with an old man
]
10.
I lay with an old man all the night
I lay with an old man all the night,
I turned to him and he to me, hee could not doe so well as hee might,
but hee would faine, but it would not bee.
