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Gammer Gvrtons Nedle anonymous The Prologue. As Gammer Gurton, with manye a wyde styche Sat pesynge & patching of Hodg her mans briche By chance or misfortune as shee her geare tost In Hodge lether bryches her needle shee lost, When Diccon the bedlem had hard by report That good Gammer Gurton was robde in thyssorte, He quyetly perswaded with her in that stound Dame Chather deare gossyp this needle had found, Yet knew shee no more of this matter (alas) Then knoeth Tom our clarke whatthe Priest saith at masse Here of there ensued so fearfull a fraye, Mas Doctor was sent for these gossyps to staye, Because he was Curate and estemed full wyse Who found that he sought not by Diccons deuice, When all thinges were tombled and cleane out of fassion Whether it were by fortune or some other constellacion Sodenlye the neele Hodge found by the prickynge And drew it out of his bottocke where he felt it stickynge Theyr hartes then atrest with perfect securytie. With a pot of good nale they stroake v . . .
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