"THow oolde," quod I, "so ffoule off cheere,
What cause haste thow to abyden [[hastow tabiden St.]] heere [Stowe folio 358a]
Amonge this ffayrë companye
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Off ladyes? I trowe thow art a spye.
Thow owghttyest not, with so ffoule a fface,
To [[To om. St.]] abyden in so ffeyre a place."
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¶ Pouerte Impacyent: [[impacyent Tib., om. St.]]
QVod sche, 'the trowthë ffor to kythe,
Thow haste seyne fful offtë sythe
With lordës, ladyes, (it is no doute,) [[St. & Tib.]]
In her [[thayr St.]] chawmbres rounde abowte [[St. & Tib.]]
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For to maken dyuerse Iapes, [[St. & Tib.]]
Foxes rennen, and eke apes, [[St. & Tib.]]
Dysporte and pleye on euery syde:
And semblably, here I [[I here St.]] abyde;
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Where-off thow scholdest me not [[not me St.]] repreve;
ffor vn-to hem, no thyng I greve;
It dothe hem non dysávauntage,
ffor to my silffe is the damáge.
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ANd [[and, om. St.]] ȝeue men me callen 'Pouerte,'
And I [[I om. St.]] take it not at gree
Thorough myne nowne [[owne St.]] Impacyence,
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My grucchynge doth no wight [[no wight St., myn owne Tib. (from line above).]] offence,
(Who so takyth heede ther-to)
But to my silffe, and to no mo.
Off ffolkës off dyscressyoun,
I am had in derysyoun;
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They holde off me but a Iape,
As a lord dothe off his ape.' [Tib folio 101a]
The Pylgryme:
"Hyt semyth, as [[as om. St.]] by thy résemblaunce
And by thy owgely [[own St.]] contenaunce,
By lyfftynge vp off thy mosel,
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That thow pleyest the apë wel;
And that thow art the comune ape,
Afforë ffolke to pleye and Iape."
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¶ Pouerte Impacyent: [I need hardly say in an E. E. Text that the vulgar error of holding that 'like' is not a conjunction, is due to ignorance. Like, from 'like as,' is a conjunction; Like, from 'like to or unto,' is a preposition. See S. Walker, Crit. on Shakesp., ii. 115-123.]
