Cocke Lorelle's BoteStanley and Blake, 1841 - 21 pages |
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agayne anker baude bedde berers blewe boke Bokeler borners borowe Broche makers brycke brydge Bytwene cobeler Cock Lorell Cocke dyde set COCKE LORELLE'S BOTE colman hedge corse Coryers counseyll craftes croked crystes dauber daunsed dede deuocyon dogges drapers drynke dyers euery euerychone euyll fayle fayre Flaterers fleshemonger fyrst gaue grete Gylys hath hede heuen hyll Jelyan Jogelers Joly knaues Knaves lasse lether Lond London lusty lyght Lytel marchaunte maryn Maunder mayne mete with Cocke moche mongers mustarde maker myght Myllers offred offyce ouer Padder pardon patrycke penysshe paued pulde raker Roxburghe ryche ryuer sadeler sayd sayle saynt sellers shepe shepster Shewe sholde shoters Shyppe skynners slouens smythes songe sorowe sprede stere stewys strete swete syde Sylke taker tayle Therfore theyr thorowe thynge togyder toke tombler trewe trowe tyborn wasshe whan whystele whyte wolde wryghtes wyll reherse wynde Wynkyn de Worde ye haue ye sygne yere
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Page 3 - After him succeeded by the General Councel one Cock Lorele, the most notorious knave that ever lived. By trade he was a tinker, often carrying a panne and a hammer for a show ; but when he came to a good booty he would cast his profession in a ditch, and play the padder...
Page 3 - This was he that reduced and brought in forme the Catalogue of Vagabonds, or Quarterne of Knaves, called the five and twentie Orders of Knaves : but because it is extant, and in every mans shop, I passe them over.
Page 12 - Syr this pardon is newe founde By syde London brydge in a holy grounde, Late called the stewes banke. Ye knowe well all, that there was Some relygyous women in that place To whome men offred many a franke...
Page 13 - And some in shordyche drewe theder With grete lamentacyon. And by cause they haue lost that fayre place, They wyll bylde at colman hedge in space A nother noble mansyon, Fayrer and euer the halfe strete was, For euery house newe paued is with gras: Shall be full of fayre floures, The walles shallbe of hauthorne, I wote well, And hanged w' whyte motly y' swete doth smell, Grene shall be the coloures.
Page 10 - But Cocke wolde theyr names here The pardoner sayd I will rede my roll And ye shall here the names poll by poll There of ye nede not fere Here is fyrst Cocke Lorell the knyght And symkyn emery mayntenauce agayne ryght With slyngethryfte fleshemonger Also fabyane flaterer And fesly claterer With adam auerus flayle swenger And frauces flaperoche of stewys captayne late With gylys vnyeste mayer of newgate And lewes vnlusty the lesynge monger Here also baude baudyn boiler And his brother copyn...
Page 12 - Some at saynt Kateryns stroke a grounde And many in holborne were founde Some at saynt Gyles I trowe Also in aue maria aly and at westmenster And some in shordyche drewe theder With grete lamentacyon And by cause they haue lost that fayre place They wyll bylde at colman hedge in space...
Page 19 - There was non that there was But he had an offyce more or lasse. Than Cocke Lorell dyde his whystele blowe That all his men sholde hym knowe, With that they cryed, and made a shoute, That the water shoke all aboute ; Than men myght here the ores classhe, And on the water gaue many a dasshe, They sprede theyr sayles as voyde of sorowe, Forthe they rowed Saint George to borowe ; For loye their trupettes dyde they blowe, And some songe heue and howe rombelowe.
Page 3 - Ha ye any worke for a tinker? To write of his knaveries, it would aske a long time. This was he that reduced in forme the Catalogue of Vagabonds or Quartern of Knaves, called the Five and twentie Order of Knaves.
Page 8 - The nexte that came was a coryar And a cobeler, his brother, As ryche as a newe shorne shepe ; They offred Cocke a blechynge pot, Other Jewelles they had not, B Scant shoes to theyr fete.
Page 12 - Here is kate with the croked fote That is colsys doughter the dronken koke A lusty pye baker Here is saunder sadeler of froge strete corner With lelyan loly at sygne of the bokeler And mores moule taker Also annys angry with the croked buttocke That dwelled at y e sygne of y e dogges hede in y e pot By her crafte a breche maker...