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To cast to fore the hogges.
+Lamfroy le couureur de tieulles
+Lamfroy the couerar of tyles
Couury le belfroy
Couerd the steple 24
Descailles, de tieulles,
With skaylles, with tyles,
A mieulx quil pouoit;
The beste wyse that he may;
Encordont esty
Neuertheles is it
Par le vent descouuert.
By the wynde discouerid. 28
+Leonard le couureur destrain
+Lenard the thaccher
Couury ma maysoncelle
Hath couerd my litell hous
Destrain et de gluy.
With straw and with reed.
Les lattes quil achatta
The latthes that he bought 32
Ne valent riens.
Be nothyng worth.
Il fist les parois,
He made the wallis,
Et les placqua de terre,
And daubed them with erthe,
Dont est il placqueur.
Wherof he was dawber. 36
+Logier le feultier
+Logier the feltmaker
A maint bon chappeau
Hath many a good hatte
De beures et de feultre.
Of beuer and of felte.
+Lucien le gantiers
+Lucian the glouer 40
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Siet dencoste moy;
Sitteth besyde me;
Faitte gans de cierf,
Maketh gloues of an herte,
De chien et de brebis.
Of hound and of sheep.
+Lyon le bourssier
+Lyon the pursser 4
A boursses et aloyeres,
Hath pursses and pauteners,
Et les achattent les enfans;
And them bye the chyldren;
Des tasses bien ouuries.
Of the powches well wrought.
+Lucie le bastarde
+Lucie the bastarde 8
Ne fera iamais bien;
Shall neuer doo well;
Car elle dist mal de ceulx[1]
For she saith euyll of them
Qui bien lui ont fait.
That well haue don to her.
[Footnote 1: cenlx]
++MArtin le especier
++MArtin the grocer 12
Vent pluiseurs especes
Selleth many spyces
De toutes manieres de pouldre
Of all maners of poudre
Pour faire les brouets,
For to make browettys,
Et a moult de boistes pointes
And hath many boxes paynted 16
Plaines de confections,
Full of confections,
[Sidenote: P. 39.]
Et moult de cannes
And many pottes
Plaines de beuurages.
Full of drynkes.
+Maurisse le surgien
+Morysse the surgyan 20
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