¶ The iii. Acte.
¶ The ii. Sceane.
Gammer. Hodge.
Gāmer
HOw Hodge, mayst nowe be glade, cha newes to tell thee
Ich knowe who ••ais my neele, ich trust soone shalt it see
Hodge
¶ The deuyll thou does, hast hard gammer in deede, or doest but iest
Gāmer
¶ Tys as true as steele Hodge.
Hodge
¶ Why, knowest well where dydst leese it?
Gāmer
¶ Ich know who found it, and tooke it vp shalt see or it be longe.
Hodge
¶ Gods mother dere, if that be true, farwel both naule an thong
But who hais it gammer say on: chould faine here it disclosed.
Gāmer
¶ That false fixen, that same dame Chat, that counts her selfe so honest.
Hodge
¶ Who tolde you so:
Gāmer
¶ That same did Diccon the bedlam, which saw it done.
Hodge
¶ Diccon: it is a vengeable knaue gammer, tis a bonable horsō,
Can do mo things then that els cham deceyued euill:
By the masse ich saw him of late cal vp a great blacke deuill,
O the knaue cryed ho▪ ho, he roared and he thundred,
And yead bene here, cham sure yould murrenly ha wondred.
Gāmer
¶ Was not thou afraide Hodge to see him in this place:
Hodge
¶ No, and chad come to me, chould haue laid him on the face,
Chould haue promised him.
Gāmer
¶ But Hodge, had he no hornes to pushe:
Hodge
¶ As long as your two armes, saw ye neuer Fryer Rushe
Painted on a cloth, with a side long cowes tayle:
And crooked clouen feete, ••nd many a hoked nayle?
For al the world (if I shuld iudg) chould recken him his brother
Loke euen what face Frier Rush had, the deuil had such another
Gāmer
¶ New Iesus mercy hodg. did diccon in him bring:
Hodge
¶ Nay gammer (heare me speke) chil to•• you a greater thing,
The deuil (when diccon had him, ich hard him wondrous weel)