les keut[2] de deux coustures[3].
She soweth them with two semes. 20
[Footnote 2: kent]
[Footnote 3: constures]
++NYchole le mostardier
++NYcholas the mustardmaker
A bon vinaigre,
Hath good vynegre,
Bon verius, bon moustarde,
Good veriuse, good mustarde,
Galentine sausse,
Galentyne sawce, 24
Noir poiure,
Black pepre,
Bonne gansailliede[4].
Good ganselyn[6].
[Footnote 4: gausailliede]
[Footnote 6: gauselyn]
+Natalie la dame des estuues
+Natalye the wyf of the stewes
Tient bonne estuue,
Kepeth a good styewe, 28
La plus souffisante de la cite;
The moste suffysaunte of the cite;
Ilz y vont estuuer
They goon thedyr to be stewed
Toutes les estrangiers.
Alle the strangers.
Elle demeure
She duelleth 32
Deriere le mur des carmes.
After the walle of the white freris.
++OLiuier le couretier
++OLyuer the brocour
Gaigne a couretage,
Wynneth by brocorage,
A vng denier a dieu,
With one goddes peny, 36
Vingt liures ou trente.
Twenty pound or thyrty.
+Oberol le hostelier
+Oberol the hosteler
A touts les bons hostes;
Hath all the good ghestes;
Il a les allemains
He hath the alemayns 40
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[Headnote: NAMES: ONNOUR--OGIER. _Inn-Guests, Prison-keeper, &c._]
Quon appelle oesterlins,
That men calle esterlyngis,
Poyteuins, fransoys,
Poyteuyns, frenshemen,
Engloys, brabansois,
Englishmen, brabanders,
Flamengs, lombars,
Flemyngis, lombardis, 4
Espaignoys, Portingalois,
Spaynardys, portingalers,
Geneuoys, escochoys,
Ienewys, scottes,
Haynewiers, hollandois,
Heynewiers, hollanders,
Danoys, frisons.
Danes men, of friseland. 8
++Onnore le tourier
++Onnour the kepar of the tour
Garde le prison
Kepeth the prison
La les prisonniers sont;
There the prisonners bee;
Il y sont laronnes, mourdriers,
There ben theues, murderers, 12
Faulx monnoyers, robbeurs,
False money makers, robbers,
Afourceurs de femmes,
Rauisshers of wymmen,
Coppeurs de boursses.
Cuttars of purses.
Les vng pend on;
That one men hange; 16
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