The Wakefield Master - The Second Shepherd's Pageant (1500s)

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hand-tamed, gentlery-men
'We are made hand-tamed With these gentlery-men' p79
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plough tarry, find it contrary
'These men that are lord-fast, they cause the plough tarry. That, men say, is for the best; we find it contrary' p79
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wedmen, woe, hen, ****
'We sely wedmen dree mickle woe [...] Silly Copple, our hen, both to and fro She cackles [...] Woe is him our ****, For he is in shackles' p81
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chant, sing
'Let see how ye chant. [They sing.]' p85
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Mak, cloak
'[Mak enters with a clock covering his tunic]' p85
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reverence
'I must have reverence' p86
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wrong, turd
'Mak, ye do wrong [...] Now take out that Southern tooth, And set in a turd!' p86
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eat, needle
'I eat not a needle This month and more' p87
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lakan
'She brings forth a lakan' p87
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coffer, offer, head-masspenny
'To give all in my coffer To-morn at next to offer Her head mass-penny' p87
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night spell
'[He recites a night-spell]' p88
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Pontio Pilato
'Pontio Pilato. Christ's cross me speed!' p88
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strait, more, sweat
'For in a strait can I get More than they that swink and sweat' p89
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flain, eat
'I would he were flain, I list well eat' p90
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hide, cradle
'Here shall we him hide, till they be gone, In my cradle. Abide!' p90
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wolf-skin
'methought he was lapped in a wolf-skin' p91
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Gill, croak, travail
'I thought Gill began to croak and travail full sad' p92
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Make or Gill
'either Mak or Gill was at that assent' p95
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speak soft
'Good, speak soft' p96
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beguiled, eat this child
'If ever I you beguiled, That I eat this child That lies in this cradle' p97
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give, sixpence
'Mak, with your leave, let me give your bairn But sixpence' p99
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swaddle
'Will ye see how they swaddle His four feet in the middle?' p99
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Angel
'[An Angel sings 'Gloria in excelsis']' p101
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merry, song
'Be merry and not sad - of mirth is our song!' p102
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false guiler, beguiled
'The false beguiler of teen, now goes he beguiled' p103
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bleed, poor weed, pennies
'My heart would bleed To see thee sit here in so poor weed, With no pennies' p104
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born, woe
'And now he is born. He keep you from woe!' p104
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sing
'To sing are we bun' p104
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Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

'These men that are lord-fast, they cause the plough tarry. That, men say, is for the best; we find it contrary' p79

Back

plough tarry, find it contrary

Card 3

Front

'We sely wedmen dree mickle woe [...] Silly Copple, our hen, both to and fro She cackles [...] Woe is him our ****, For he is in shackles' p81

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

'Let see how ye chant. [They sing.]' p85

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

'[Mak enters with a clock covering his tunic]' p85

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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