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Rewards and Fairies
Nay, never lift up thy hand at me! There’s no clean hands in Our King appointed Brygandyne to be Clerk of all his ships.
the trade.
‘Nay, never lift up thy hands to me—there’s no clean hands
Steal in measure,’ quo’ Brygandyne. ‘There’s measure in all in the trade.
things made!’
But steal in measure,’said Harry our King. ‘There’s measure
in all things made!’
‘Gramercy, yeoman!’ said our King. ‘Thy counsel liketh me.’
And he pulled a whistle out of his neck and whistled whistles God speed the ‘Mary of the Tower,’ the ‘Sovereign’ and ‘Grace
three.
Dieu,’
Then came my Lord of Arundel pricking across the down, The ‘Sweepstakes’ and the ‘Mary Fortune,’ and the ‘Henry
And behind him the Mayor and Burgesses of merry
of Bristol’ too!
Suthampton town.
All tall ships that sail on the sea, or in our harbours stand,
That they may keep measure with Harry our King and peace
They drew the naughty shipwrights up, with the kettles in in Engeland!
their hands,
And bound them round the forecastle to wait the King’s commands.
But ‘Since ye have made your beds,’ said the King, ‘ye needs
must lie thereon.
For the sake of your wives and little ones—felawes, get you
gone!’
When they had beaten Slingawai, out of his own lips,
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