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

Act III, Scene I

by William Stevenson (attributed) c. 1530–1575


HODGE.
Sim Glover, yet gramercy! cham meetly well-sped now,
Th'art even as good a fellow as ever kiss'd a cow!
Here is a thong indeed, by the mass, though ich speak it;
Tom Tankard's great bald curtal, I think, could not break it!
And when he spied my need to be so straight and hard,
Hase lent me here his nawl, to set the gib forward;
As for my gammer's nee'le, the flying fiend go wi' it!
Chill not now go to the door again with it to meet.
Chould make shift good enough and chad a candle's end;
The chief hole in my breech with these two chill amend.

MLA

William Stevenson (attributed). Gammer Gurton's Needle, Act III, Scene I. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/gammer-gurtons-needle/12/.

Chicago

William Stevenson (attributed). Gammer Gurton's Needle, Act III, Scene I. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/gammer-gurtons-needle/12/.

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