Give her cold jelly
To take up her belly,
And once a day swinge her again,
If she stand all these pains,
Then knock out her brains,
Her disease no longer will reign._
_1 Bo._ More excellent, more excellent, sweet Sow-gelder.
_2 Bo._ Three-pence a piece, three-pence a piece.
_Hig._ Will you hear a Song how the Devil was gelded?
_3 Bo._ I, I, let's hear the Devil roar, Sow-gelder.
SONG.
1.
_He ran at me first in the shape of a Ram,
And over and over the Sow-Gelder came;
I rise and I halter'd him fast by the horn,
I pluckt out his Stones as you'd pick out a Corn.
Baa, quoth the Devil, and forth he slunk,
And left us a Carcase of Mutton that stunk.
2.
The next time I rode a good mile and a half,
Where I heard he did live in disguise of a Calf,
I bound and I gelt him, ere he did any evil;
He was here at his best, but a sucking Devil.
Maa, yet he cry'd, and forth he did steal,
And this was sold after, for excellent Veal.
3.
Some half a year after in the form of a Pig,
I met with the Rogue, and he look'd very big;
I catch'd at his leg, laid him down on a log,
Ere a man could fart twice, I had made him a Hog.
Owgh, quoth the Devil, and forth gave a Jerk,
That a Jew was converted, and eat of the Perk._
_1 Bo._ Groats apiece, Groats apiece, Groats apiece,
There sweet Sow-Gelder.
_Enter_ Prig _and_ Ferret.
_Prig._ Will ye see any feats of activity,
Some Sleight of hand, Legerdemain? hey pass,
Presto, be gone there?
_2 Bo._ Sit down Jugler.
_Prig._ Sirrah, play you your art well; draw near Piper:
Look you, my honest friends, you see my hands;
Plain dealing is no Devil: lend me some Money,
Twelve-pence a piece will serve.
_1. 2. B._ There, there.
_Prig._ I thank you,
Thank ye heartily: when shall I pay ye?
_All B._ Ha, ha, ha, by th' Mass this was a fine trick.
_Prig._ A merry sleight toy: but now I'll show your Worships
A trick indeed.
_Hig._ Mark him well now my Masters.
_Prig._ Here are three balls,
These balls shall be three bullets,
One, two, and three: _ascentibus, malentibus_.
_Presto_, be gone: they are vanish'd: fair play, Gentlemen.
Now these three, like three Bullets, from your three Noses
Will I pluck presently: fear not, no harm Boys,
_Titere, tu patule._
_1 B._ Oh, oh, oh.
_Prig._ _Recubans sub jermlne fagi._
_2 B._ Ye pull too hard; ye pull too hard.
_Prig._ Stand fair then:
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