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THE SECOND ACT The Fourth Scene [Diccon remains] Diccon: Now this gear must forward go, for here my Gammer cometh. Be still awhile and say nothing; make here a little roomth! 1 [Gammer Gurton enters from her house] Gammer: Good Lord, shall never be my luck my nee'le again to spy! Alas the while, 'tis past my help! Where 'tis, still it must lie! Diccon: Now, Jesus, Gammer Gurton, what driveth you to this sadness? I fear, by my conscience, you will sure fall [in]to madness. Gammer: Who is that? What, Diccon? Clean lost, man! Fie, fie! Gammer Gurton's Needle 26 Diccon: Marry, fie on them that be worthy! 2 But what should be your trouble? Gammer: Alas, the more Ich think on it, my sorrow it waxeth 3 double! My goodly tossing spurrier's nee'le 4 'Chave lost, Ich wot not where. Diccon: Your nee'le! When? Gammer: My nee'le! Alas, Ich might full ill it spare! 5 As God himself knoweth, ne'er one beside 'Chave. 6 Diccon: If this be all, good Gammer, I warrant you all is safe. Gammer: Why, know you any tidings which way my nee'le is gone? Diccon: Yea, that I do, doubtless, as you shall hear anon. I see a thing this matter touches, within these twenty hours. 7 Even at this gate 8 before my face, by a neighbor of yours: She stooped me down, 9 and up she took a needle or a pin. I dare be sworn it was even yours, by all my mother's kin. 1 Roomth: room 2 Them that be worthy: them that deserve shame 3 Waxeth: grows 4 Spurrier's nee'le: a spurrier is a leather-worker who makes harnesses for horses and oxen; a spurrier's needle is a strong and sharp one. 5 Ich might . . spare: I can hardly do without it! 6 As God . . . 'Chave: As God knows, I have nary a one (not a one) except for that (the one that's lost). 7 I see…hours: Within the past twenty hours I saw something that has to do with this matter. 8 Gate: door 9 Stooped me down: stooped down
Gammer Gurton's Needle 27 Gammer: It was my nee'le, Diccon, Ich wot; 1 for here, even by this post, Ich sat, what time as Ich up-start, and so my nee'le it lost! 2 Who was it, lief 3 son? Speak, Ich pray thee, and quickly tell me that! Diccon: A subtle quean 4 as any in this town! Your neighbor here, Dame Chat. Gammer: Dame Chat, Diccon? Let me be gone! 'Chi'll thither in posthaste! 5 [She rushes toward Dame Chat's house] Diccon: Take my counsel 6 yet or ye go, for fear you walk in waste! 7 It is a murrion 8 crafty drab, 9 and froward to be pleased; 10 And ye not take the better way, our needle yet ye lose it. 11 For when she took it up, even here before your doors, "What, soft, Dame Chat," quoth I, "that same is none of yours!" "Avaunt!" 12 quoth she, "Sir Knave! What pratest thou of that I find? 13 I would thou hadst kissed me I wot where!" – she meant, I know, behind. And home she went as brag 14 as it had been a body louse, [Diccon continues] And I after as bold as I had been the goodman of the house. But there and 15 ye had heard her how she began to scold – The tongue, it went on pattens, 16 by Him that Judas sold! 17 Each other word, I was a knave, and you a whore of whores, Because I spoke in your behalf and said the needle was yours. Gammer: Gog's bread! And thinks the callet 18 thus to keep my nee'le me fro? 19 Diccon: Let her alone, and she minds none other but even to dress you so! 20 1 Ich wot: I know it! 2 It was . . . lost!: It was my needle, Diccon, I know it; for here, right beside this post, I was sitting, until I jumped up and so lost my needle! 3 Lief: beloved, dear 4 Quean: slut, whore 5 'Chi'll thither in posthaste!: I'll rush straight in there! The mail – the post, in England – was entrusted to the fastest carriages. To go posthaste was to go at top speed. 6 Counsel: advice 7 Take my . . . waste!: Listen to my advice before you go inside, for fear you're wasting a trip! 8 Murrion: plagued, cursed 9 Drab: whore 10 Froward to be pleased: hard to satisfy, stubborn 11 And ye . . . it: If you don't take the better way, you'll lose your needle yet. 12 Avaunt: Get out of here! 13 What pratest . . . find? Why do you babble about what I've found? 14 Brag: arrogantly, briskly 15 And: if 16 Pattens: wooden shoes, which make a lot of clatter and noise 17 By Him…sold: By Christ (Judas sold out Jesus Christ for thirty pieces of silver) 18 Callet: cheap whore 19 Nee'le me fro?: needle from me? 20 Let her . . . so!: If you don't do something, that's just how she means to treat you!
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