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Towneley Plays.

SECUNDA PASTORUM.

[Abridged.]

PRIMUS PASTOR. Lord, what these weders ar cold, and
I am ylle happyd;
I am nere-handle dold, so long have I nappyd;
My legys thay fold, my fingers ar chappyd,
It is not as I wold, for I am al lappyd

In sorow. 5

In stormes and tempest, Now in the eest, now in the west,
Wo is hym has never rest
Myd-day nor morrow.

Bot we sely shepardes, that walkys on the moore,

In fayth we are nere-handys outt of the doore; 11
No wonder, as it standbys, if we be poore, For the tylthe of oure landys lyys fallow as the floore,
As ye ken.

We ar so hamyd, 15
For-taxed and ramyd, We ar mayde hand-tamyd,
With thyse gentlery men.

Thus they refe us oure rest, Oure Lady theym wary!
These that ar lord-fest, they cause the ploghe

tary. 2C
That men say is for the best we fynde it contrary, Thus ar husbandys opprest, in pointe to myscary,
On lyfe.

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Publication Information: Book Title: English Miracle Plays, Moralities and Interludes: Specimens of the Pre-Elizabethan Drama. Contributors: Alfred W. Pollard - editor. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1927. Page Number: 31.
    
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