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Bailey: God bless you, Gammer Gurton. Gammer: God yield 1 you, master mine. [Gammer Gurton enters from her house] Bailey: Thou hast a knave within thy house, Hodge, a servant of thine. They tell me that busy knave is such a filching one That hen, pig, goose, or capon – thy neighbor can have none. Gammer: By God 'Cham much amazed to hear any such report! Hodge was not wont, Ich trow, to 'have him in that sort! 2 Chat: A thievisher knave is not alive, more filching or more false! Many a truer man than he has hanged up by the halse! 3 And thou, his dame, of all his theft thou art the sole receiver! For Hodge to catch and thou to keep – I never knew none better. 4 Gammer: Sir, reverence of your masterdom, and you were out of doors, 'Chould be so bold, for all her brags, to call her arrant whore! 5 And Ich knew Hodge so bad as thou, Ich wish me endless sorrow, And 'Chould hot take the pains to hang him up before tomorrow. 6 Chat: What have I stolen from thee or thine, thou ill-favored old trot? 7 Gammer: A great deal more, by God's blessed, than 'Chever by thee got! 8 That thou knowest well, I need not say it – Bailey: Stop there, I say! And tell me, I pray you, this matter by the way: How chance Hodge is not here? Him would I fain have had. Gammer: Alas, sir, he will be here anon; ha' been handled too bad! Chat: Master Bailey, sir, you be not such a fool, well I know, But you perceive by this lingering there is a pad in the straw! 9 Gammer: 'Chi'll show you his face, I warrant thee – lo, where he is now! 1 Yield: reward 2 Hodge was . . . sort: Hodge has never been accustomed to behaving that way. Gammer Gurton's Needle 50 3 Halse: neck 4 That is, "And you, his mistress, receive all the goods Hodge steals – I never knew a worse thief than Hodge or a worse receiver of stolen goods than you." 5 That is, "Sir, out of respect for your presence, if you weren't around, because of all Dame Chat's lies I would call her an obvious whore!" 6 That is, "If I knew that Hodge was as bad as you are, I swear I would take the trouble to hang him myself." 7 Ill-favored old trot: ugly old hag 8 That is, "A good deal more, by God's saints, than I ever took from you!" 9 Pad in the straw: toad hiding in the straw — "there's something fishy here."
Gammer Gurton's Needle 51 [Scapethrift leads Hodge out of Gammer Gurton's house] Bailey: Come on, fellow! It is told me thou art a shrew, iwis. 1 Thy neighbor's hens thou takest, and plays the two-legged fox; Their chickens and their capons too, and now and again their cocks. Hodge: Ich defy them all that dare it say! 'Cham as true as the best! Bailey: Wert not thou take[n] within this hour in Dame Chat's hens' nest? Hodge: Take[n] there? No, master. 'Chould not do it for a houseful of gold! Chat: Thou, or the devil in thy coat! 2 [To] swear this I dare be bold! Dr. Rat: Swear no swearing, quean! The devil – he gives sorrow! All is not worth a gnat 3 – thou canst swear 'til tomorrow. Where is the harm he hath? 4 Show it, by God's bread! Ye beat him, with a witness, but the stripes light on my head! Hodge: Beat me? Gog's blessed body, 'Chould first, Ich trow, have burst thee! Ich think, and 'Chad my hands loose, callet, could have crushed thee! Chat: Thou shitty knave, I trow thou knowest the full weight of my fist! I am foully deceived unless thy head and my door bar kissed! Hodge: Hold thy chat, whore! Thou cryest so loud can no man else be heard. Chat: Well, knave, and I had thee alone, I would surely rap thy custard! 5 Bailey: Sir, answer me this: Is thy head whole or broken? Chat: Yea, Master Bailey, blessed be every good token! 6 Hodge: Is my head whole? Ich warrant you 'tis neither scurvy nor scald! 7 What, you foul beast, dost think 'tis either peeled or bald? Nay, Ich thank God, 'Chi'll not for all that I must spend, That 'Chad one scab on my arse as broad as thy finger's end! Bailey: Come nearer here! 1 Shrew: rowdy fellow; iwis: certainly 2 Thou, or . . coat!: It was either you or the devil disguised as you! 3 All is . . . gnat: Your sworn word isn't worth a gnat 4 Where is . . . hath: What wounds on his head does Hodge have 5 Rap thy custard: knock you on the head 6 Blessed be . . . token: Thank God for the evidence 7 Scurvy nor scald: in bad shape nor scabby
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Page 3 and 4: THE PROLOGUE As Gammer Gurton with
Page 5 and 6: [He starts toward Dame Chat's ale-h
Page 7 and 8: THE FIRST ACT The Third Scene [Hodg
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Page 13 and 14: Gammer: It is the cat's eyes, fool,
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Page 17 and 18: Gammer Gurton's Needle 17 Hodge: Na
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Page 23 and 24: Diccon: What, soft, I say! Be still
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Page 53 and 54: Gammer: Yet shall ye find no other
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