The famous victories
1556Enters Iohn Cobler rouing, with a packe full 1558Iohn. Whoope
Dericke, how doe
st thou?
1559Der. What
Iohn, Comedeuales, aliue yet.
1560Iohn. I p
romi
se
thee Dericke, I
scapte hardly,
1561Fo
r I was wi
thin halfe a mile when one was kild.
1563Iohn. I tru
st me, I had like bene
slaine.
1564Der. But once kild, why it tis no
thing,
1565 I was foure o
r fiue times
slaine.
1566Iohn. Foure o
r fiue times
slaine.
1567Why how could
st thou haue b
eene aliue now?
1568Der. O
Iohn, neuer
say
so,
1569Fo
r I was cald
the bl
oodie
souldier among
st them all.
1570Iohn. Why what did
st thou?
1571Der. Why I will tell
thee Iohn,
1572Euery day when I went into
the
field,
1573I would take a
straw and
thru
st it into my no
se,
1574And make my no
se bl
eed, and
then I wold go into
the
field,
1575And when
the Captaine
saw me, he would
say,
1576Peace a bl
oodie
souldier, and bid me
stand a
side,
1578But marke
the chance
Iohn.
1579I went and
stood behinde a tr
ee, but marke
then
Iohn.
1580I
thought I had b
eene
safe, but on a
sodaine,
1581There
steps to me a lu
stie tall French man,
1582Now he d
rew, and I d
rew,
1583Now I lay here, and he lay
there,
1584Now I
set
this leg befo
re, and turned
this backward,
1585And
skipped quite ouer a hedge,
1586And he
saw me no mo
re
there
that day,
1587And was not
this well done
Iohn?
1588Iohn. Ma
sse
Dericke,
thou ha
st a wittie head.
1589Der. I
Iohn,
thou mai
st see, if
thou had
st takẽ my
coũsel,
1590But what ha
st thou
there?
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