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Gammer Gurton's Needle · c. 1553 (printed 1575)

Act II, Scene V

by William Stevenson (attributed) c. 1530–1575


DICCON.
Here will the sport begin; if these two once may meet,
Their cheer, durst lay money, will prove scarcely sweet.
My gammer, sure, intends to be upon her bones
With staves, or with clubs, or else with cobble stones.
Dame Chat, on the other side, if she be far behind
I am right far deceived; she is given to it of kind.
He that may tarry by it awhile, and that but short,
I warrant him, trust to it, he shall see all the sport.
Into the town will I, my friends to visit there,
And hither straight again to see th'end of this gear.
In the meantime, fellows, pipe up; your fiddles, I say, take them,
And let your friends hear such mirth as ye can make them.

MLA

William Stevenson (attributed). Gammer Gurton's Needle, Act II, Scene V. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/gammer-gurtons-needle/11/.

Chicago

William Stevenson (attributed). Gammer Gurton's Needle, Act II, Scene V. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/gammer-gurtons-needle/11/.

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