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Title: Cocke Lorelles Bote

Author: Anonymous

Author of introduction, etc.: John Philip Edmond

Other: Wynkyn de Worde

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COCKE LORELLES BOTE ***

COCKE LORELLES BOTE.

One Hundred and One Copies Printed,

One of which is on Vellum.

A SATIRICAL POEM

From an unique copy printed by Wynkyn de Worde

“Come begin;

And you the judges bear a wary eye.”

Hamlet.

ABERDEEN

J. & J. P. EDMOND & SPARK

MDCCCLXXXIV.

PREFACE.

THE singularly interesting fragment of early English literature known as Cocke Lorelles Bote, is a satirical poem of four hundred and fourteen lines, in which various classes of society, chiefly of the lower order, are passed under review in rapid succession. The glimpse we obtain of each class is only momentary, but the author with some well chosen phrase, in that short time sketches their failings.

The original from which this poem is reprinted, is in black-letter, and is preserved in the Garrick Collection, British Museum. It is considered unique, but unfortunately it is imperfect at the beginning.

It was printed in London, by Wynkyn de Worde, and bears no date, but may safely be ascribed to the early part of the reign of Henry the Eighth. The idea of the “Bote,” in which so many different characters are gathered together, is supposed to have been taken from Sebastian Brandt’s “Shyp of Folys,” which was translated into English by Alexander Barclay, and printed by Pynson at the beginning of the sixteenth century. What gives weight to this suggestion, is the fact that the wood-cuts with which the original of Cocke Lorell is illustrated, are similar to those used in the “Ship of Folys.”

The hero of the poem was the leader of a notorious band of robbers which infested the metropolis, and was probably alive at the time of its publication. He is mentioned by Samuel Rowlands in “Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell, his Defence and Answere to the Belman of London,” printed in 1610, who describes him in these terms:—“After him, succeeded by general councell, one Cocke Lorrell, the most notorious knave that ever lived: by trade he was a tinker, often carrying a panne and a hammer for show: but when he came to a good booty, he would cast his profession in a ditch, and play the padder,[1] and then would away, and as hee past through the toune, crie, ‘Ha you any worke for a tinker?’ To write of his knaveries it would aske a long time: I referre you to the old manuscript remayning on record in Maunder’s Hall.[2] This was he that reduced and brought in forme the Catalogue of Vagabonds, or Quarterne of Knaves, called the five and twentie Orders of Knaves: but because it is extant, and in every mans shop, I passe them over.... This Cocke Lorrell continued among them longer than any of his predecessors before him, or after him, for he ruled almost two and twentie yeares, until the yeare An. Dom. 1533, and about the five and twenty yeare of K. Henry the Eight.”

The “Catalogue of Vagabonds” to which Rowlands alludes in the above extract as having been written by Cocke Lorell, is a tract printed by John Awdely in 1565, and of which a second edition was issued by the same printer in 1575. It is not improbable that Awdely may have himself been the compiler of the “Catalogue.” A copy of the edition of 1575 is in the Bodleian Library, the quaint title of which is as follows:—“The Fraternitye of Vacabondes. As wel of ruflyng Vacabondes, as of beggerly, of Women as of Men, of Gyrles as of Boyes, with their proper names and qualities. With a description of the crafty company of Cousoners and Shifters. Whereunto also is adioyned the XXV Orders of Knaues, otherwyse called a Quartern of Knaues Confirmed for euer by Cocke Lorell.

The Vprightman speaketh.

Our Brotherhood of Vacabondes,

If you would know where dwell;

In graues end Barge which seldome standes,

The talke wyll shew ryght well.

Cocke Lorell aunswereth.

Some orders of my Knaues also

In that Barge shall ye fynde;

For no where shall ye walke I trow,

But ye shall see their kynde.

Imprinted at London by John Awdely, dwellynge in little Britayne Streete withoute Aldersgate, 1575.”

Dr. Bliss describes the above mentioned tract at length, in the “British Bibliographer,” Vol. II., p. 12, and makes further allusion to it in his edition of Earle’s “Microcosmography,” p. 256, published in 1811.

One of the earliest, if not the earliest, printed mention of the Bote occurs in Thomas Feylde’s “A contrauersye bytwene a louer and a Jaye. [Colophon.] Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the sygne of the Sonne by Wynkyn de Worde.” The Lover in the preceding verses apostrophizes Nature regarding his passion for his mistress, at which the Jay thus expostulates:—

“Thoughe nature moue,

And bydde the loue,

Yet wysdome wolde proue,

Or it be hote,

Whan fortune sowre

Dothe on the lowre,

Thou getest an ore

In cocke lorels bote.”

The next mention of Cocke Lorell is in a black-letter poem, preserved in the Bodleian Library, without date or printer’s name, entitled “Doctour Double Ale.”

“I hold you a grota

Ye wyll rede by rota,

That ye wete a cota

In cocke lorels bota.”

The Rev. Charles H. Hartshorne, in “Ancient Metrical Tales,” reprinted “Doctour Double Ale,” but rendered the last line cocke losels bota.

In pointing out this error, Mr. Collier says, that in John Heywood’s “Epigrams upon three hundred proverbs,” printed in 1566, mention is made of Cocke Lorelles Bote, under the heading of

“A BUSY BODY

He will have an ore in every man’s barge,

Even in cocke lorels barge, he berth that charge.”

Later on we find that the rascal is not forgotten, for Ben Jonson in his masque of the “Gypsies Metamorphosed,” has introduced him as feasting the Evil One, in a song which continued popular for some considerable time, and was frequently printed as a broadside, copies of which are in the Pepysian and Ashmolean Collections.

The first verse is as follows:—

“Cock Lorrell would need have the devil his guest,

And bid him once into the Peak to dinner,

Where never the fiend had such a feast

Provided him yet at the charge of a sinner.”

In 1807, the Rev. William Beloe, in his “Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Works,” Vol. I., p. 393, called attention to the following tract, but unfortunately he changed the title to “Cocke Lorells Vote,” in place of “Bote.” That this was a misprint may be inferred from the fact, that in another place in the same work, he makes reference to a passage in Bishop Percy’s Reliques, where the correct title is given.

Dibdin, who appears never to have seen the work, but says he was “indebted to Mr. H. Ellis of the British Museum” for specimens “of this singular performance” has fallen into the droll blunder of writing “of the licentious and predatory character of its AUTHOR, ... one Cock Lorell,” whose “popularity has, I believe, escaped the notice of our chroniclers.”[3]

The poem was presented to the members of the Roxburghe Club in 1817, by the Rev. Henry Drury, but the impression was limited to thirty-five copies, two of which were printed on vellum.

It was again printed at Edinburgh for Stanley and Blake in 1817, from a transcript made by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson, with an introductory notice by Mr. James Maidment. This reprint has become almost as rare as the Roxburghe Club edition, only forty copies having been taken.

The Percy Society, in 1843, issued an edition of the “Bote” to its members, with a preface by Dr. E. F. Rimbault. The rarity of the two first mentioned reprints, and the form, apart altogether from the comparative scarcity of the last, has led to the reprinting once more of this poem. The writer begs to acknowledge his obligations to both Mr. Maidment’s and Dr. Rimbault’s editions as supplying the material for the foregoing notice. While aware that there is little that is new which can be said about Cocke Lorell, he trusts that this edition may be favourably received, if for no other reasons than these, that while it avoids the many inaccuracies of the Edinburgh edition, it omits the modern punctuation which has been introduced into the Percy Society’s reprint.

The present impression is limited to one hundred and one copies, one of which is printed on vellum.

J. P. EDMOND.

COCKE LORELLES BOTE.

* * * * * * *

She had a desyre ofte to be wedde                                       B i a.

And also to lye in an other mannes bedde

Lytell rought she therfore

She is as softe as a lamme yf one do her meue

And lyke to yᵉ deuyll wan a mā dothe her greue

So well is she sette

O good condycyon to her housbonde

Yf he call her calat she calleth hȳ knaue agayne

She shyll not dye in his dette

By Saynt Jone sayd Cocke than

These be fayre vertues in a woman

Thou shalte be my launder

To wasshe and kepe clene all my gere

Our two beddes togyder shall be sette

Without ony lette

The nexte that came was a coryar

And a cobeler his brother

As ryche as a newe shorne shepe

They offred Cocke a blechynge pot

Other Jewelles they had not

Scant shoes to theyr fete

The coryer dresseth so well his lether

That it wolde drynke water in fayre weder

Therfore he hath many a crystes curse

And tho cobeler for his cloutynge

The people blesseth hym with euyll cheuynge

To knytte faste in his purse

A shomaker came to these other two

Bytwene them two was moche a do

For a pyese of lether

They togged with theyr teth and gnewe it there                                       B i b.

And pulde as it had been grehondes at a hare

It was a shepes skyne of a wether

And than they tanned it whan they had done

To make lether to hym with mennes shone

And all for theyr auayle

For as sone as the hemme is tore

The sho is lost for euer more

And it is lytell meruayle

A tanner for euyll tannyng of leder

They foure with sorowe Cocke dyde set togyder

And neuer a good without fayle

Than came one wᵗ two bolddogges at his tayle

And that was a bocher without fayle

All be gored in reed blode

In his hande he bare a flap for flyes

His hosen gresy vpon his thyes

That place for magottes was very good

On his necke he bare a cole tre logge

He had as moche pyte as a dogge

And he were ones wrothe

He loked perysshe and also rowe

A man wolde take hym for a shrewe I trowe

And of his company be lothe

Than came a gonge fermourer

Other wyse called a masser scourer

With hym a canyell raker

Theyr presence made Cocke and his mē to spewe

For as swete was theyr brethe as henkā or rewe

To wasshe them they laked water

On these Irysshe copel I wyll not tare                                       B ii a.

Cocke dyde set thē there as knaues sholde be

Amonge the slouenly sorte

Than came two false towlers in nexte

He set them by pykers of the best

For there sholde they abyde

But before yᵗ they were plonged in the ryuer

To searche theyr bodyes fayre and clere

Therof they had good sporte

A myller dustypoll than dyde come

A Ioly felowe with a golden thome

On his necke a sacke was

Many sayd that he with reprefe

Of all craftes was nexte a thefe                                       B ii b.

In that Cocke founde no lacke

He sayd that he touled twys for forgetynge

And stele floure and put chauke therin

Be sherewe hym that taught hym that

Cocke bad hym grynde cherystones and peson

To make his men brede for a season

By cause whete was very dere

Than came a pardoner with his boke

His quaterage of euery man he toke

But Cocke wolde theyr names here

The pardoner sayd I will rede my roll

And ye shall here the names poll by poll

There of ye nede not fere

Here is fyrst Cocke Lorell the knyght

And symkyn emery mayntenaūce agayne ryght

With slyngethryfte fleshemonger

Also fabyane flaterer

And fesly claterer

With adam auerus flayle swenger

And fraūces flaperoche of stewys captayne late

With gylys vnyeste mayer of newgate

And lewes vnlusty the lesynge monger

Here also baude baudyn boller

And his brother copyn coler

With mathew marchaunte of shoters hyll

Crystofer catchepoll a crystes course gaderer

And wat welbelyne of ludgate Iayler

With laurence lorell of clerken well

Here is gylys Iogeler of ayebery

And hym sougelder of lothe bery                                       B iii a.

With wallys the wrangler

Pers potter of brydge water

Saunder fely the mustarde maker

With Ielyan Iangeler

Here is Ienkyne berwarde of Barwycke

And tom tombler of warwyke

With Phyllyp fletcher of fernam

Here is wyll wyly the myl peker

And patrycke peuysshe heerbeter

With lusty hary hange man

Also mathewe tothe drawer of London

And sybly sole mylke wyfe of Islyngton

With davy drawelache of rokyngame

Here is maryone marchauntes at all gate                                       B iii b.

Her husbōde dwelleth at yᵉ sygne of yᵉ cokeldes pate

Nexte house to Robyn renawaye

Also hycke crokenec the rope maker

And steuen mesyll mouthe muskyll taker

With Iacke basket seler of alwelay

Here is george of podynge lane carpenter

And patrycke peuysshe a conynge dyrte dauber

Worshypfull wardayn of slouens In

There is maryn peke small fremason

And pers peuterer that knocketh a basyn

With gogle eyed tomson shepster of lyn

Here is glyed wolby of gylforde squyere

Andrewe of habyngedon apell byer

With alys esy a gay tale teller

Also peter paten maker

With gregory loue good of rayston mayer

And hary halter seler at tyborn the ayer

Here is kate with the croked fote

That is colsys doughter the dronken koke

A lusty pye baker

Here is saunder sadeler of froge strete corner

With Ielyan Ioly at sygne of the bokeler

And mores moule taker

Also annys angry with the croked buttocke

That dwelled at yᵉ sygne of yᵉ dogges hede in yᵉ pot

By her crafte a breche maker

Cocke sayd pardoner now ho and sease

Thou makeste me wery holde thy pease

A thynge tell thou to me

What profyte is to take thy pardon                                       B iv a.

Shewe vs what mede is to come

To be in this fraternyte

Syr this pardon is newe founde

By syde London brydge in a holy grounde

Late called the stewes banke

Ye knowe well all that there was

Some relygyous women in that place

To whome men offred many a franke

And bycause they were so kynde and lyberall

A merueylous auenture there is be fall

Yf ye lyst to here how

There came suche a winde fro wynchester

That blewe these women ouer the ryuer

In wherye as I wyll you tell

Some at saynt Kateryns stroke a grounde

And many in holborne were founde

Some at saynt Gyles I trowe

Also in aue maria aly and at westmenster

And some in shordyche drewe theder

With grete lamentacyon

And by cause they haue lost that fayre place

They wyll bylde at colman hedge in space

A nother noble mansyon

Fayrer and euer the halfe strete was

For euery house newe paued is with gras

Shall be full of fayre floures

The walles shallbe of hauthorne I wote well

And hanged wᵗ whyte motly yᵗ swete doth smell

Grene shall be the coloures

And as for this olde place these wenches holy                                       B iv b.

They wyll not haue it called the stewys for foly

But maketh it a strabery banke

And there is yet a chapell saue

Of whiche ye all the pardon haue

The saynt is of symme trollanke

I wyll reherse here in generall

The indulgences that ye haue shall

Is these that foloweth with more

At the oure of deth whan ye haue nede

Ye shall be assoyled of euery good dede

That you haue done before

And ye shall be parte taker of as many good dedde

As is done euery nyght a bedde

And also ferthermore

At euery tauerne in the yere

A solempne dyryge is songe there

With a grete drynkynge

At all ale houses trewely

Ye shall be prayed for hertely

With a Ioyefull wepynge

And the pope darlaye hath graūted in his byll

That euery brother may do what he wyll

Whyle that they be wakynge

And the pardone gyueth you that hath the pose

On your owne sleue to wype your nose

Without rebuke takynge

Also pope nycoll graunteth you all in this texte

The coughe and the colyke the gout and the flyxe

With the holsome tothe ache

Also it is graunted by our bulles of lede                                       B v a.

That whan ony brother is dede

To the chyrche dogges shall cary hym

A ryche pal to ly on yᵉ corse late fro rome is come

Made of an olde payre of blewe medly popley hosone

For yᵉ worshyppe of all yᵉ brethrene

Theyr knylles shall be rōge in yᵉ myddes of tēse hosone                                       B v b.

And theyr masse songe at shoters hill amonge the elmes

With grete deuocyon in dede

And many thynges elles shall be done

The resydewe I wyll reherse soone

For drynke fyrst must I nede

Than Cocke cast a syde his hede

And sawe the stretes all ouer sprede

That to his bote wolde come

Of all craftes there were one or other

I wyll shewe how many or I passe ferther

And reken them one by one

The fyrst was golde smythes and grote clyppers

Multyplyers and clothe thyckers

Called fullers euerychone

There is taylers tauerners and drapers

Potycaryes ale brewers and bakers

Mercers fletchers and sporyers

Boke prynters peynters bowers

Myllers carters and botyll makers

Waxechaundelers clothers and grocers

Wolle men vynteners and flesshemongers

Salters Iowelers and habardashers

Drouers cokes and pulters

Yermongers pybakers and waferers

Fruyters chese mongers and mynstrelles

Talowe chaundelers hostelers and glouers

Owchers skynners and cutlers

Blade smythes fosters and sadelers

Coryers cordwayners and cobelers

Gyrdelers forborers and webbers                                       B vi a.

Quylte makers shermen and armorers

Borlers tapstry workemakers and dyers

Brouderers strayners and carpyte makers

Sponers torners and hatters

Lyne webbers setters with lyne drapers

Roke makers coper smythes and lorymers

Brydel bytters blacke smythes and ferrars

Bokell smythes horse leches and gold beters

Fyners plommers and penters

Bedmakers fedbed makers and wyre drawers

Founders laten workers and broche makers

Pauyers bell makers and brasyers

Pynners nedelers and glasyers

Bokeler makers dyers and lether sellers

Whyte tanners galyors and shethers

Masones male makers and merbelers

Tylers brycke leyers harde hewers

Parys plasterers daubers and lyme borners

Carpenters coupers and ioyners

Pype makers wode mōgers and orgyn makers

Coferers carde makers and caruers

Shyppe wryghtes whele wryghtes and sowers

Harpe makers leches and vpholsterers

Porters fesycyens and corsers

Parchemente makers skynners and plowers

Barbers boke bynders and lymners

Repers faners and horners

Pouche makers belowfarmes and cage sellers

Lanterners stryngers grynders

Arowe heders maltemen and corne mongers                                       B vi b.

Balancers tynne casters and skryueners

Stacyoners vestyment swoers and ymagers

Sylke women pursers and garnysshers

Table makers sylke dyers and shepsters

Golde sheres keuerchef launds and rebē makers

Tankarde berers bouge men and spere planers

Spynsters carders and cappe knytters

Sargeauntes katche pollys and somners

Carryers carters and horskepers

Courte holders bayles and honters

Constables hede borowes and katers

Butlers sterchers and musterde makers

Harde waremen mole sekers and ratte takers

Bewardes brycke borners and canel rakers

Potters brome sellers pedelers

Shepherdes cowe herdes and swyne kepers

Broche makers glas blowers cādelstycke casts

Hedgers dykers and mowers

Gonners maryners and shypmaysters

Chymney swepers and costerde mongers

Lode men and bere brewers

Fysshers of the see and muskel takers

Schouyll chepers gardeners and rake fetters

Players purse cutters money baterers

Gold washers tomblers Iogelers

Pardoners kȳges bēche gatherers and lether dyers

There were theues hores and baudes wᵗ mortherers

Crakers facers and chylderne quellers

Spyes lyers and grete sclaunderers

Cursers chyders and grete vengeaunce cryers                                       C i a.

Dyssymulynge beggers hede brekers borders

Nette makers and harlote takers

Swerers and outragyous laughers

Surmowsers yll thynkers and make brasers

With lollers lordaynes and fagot berers

Luskes slouens and kechen knaues

Bargemen whery rowers and dysers

Tyburne collopes and peny pryckers

Bowlers mas shoters and quayters

Flaterers and two face berers

Sluttes drabbes and counseyll whystelers

With smoggy colyers and stȳkȳge gōge fermers

Of euery craft some there was

Shorte or longe more or lasse

All these rehersed here before

In Cockes bote eche man had an ore

All tho that offyces had

Some woūde at yᵉ capstayne as Cocke thē bad

Some stode at yᵉ slȳge some dyde trusse and thrȳge

Some pulde at the beryll some sprede yᵉ mayne myssyll

Some howysed the mayne sayle

Some veryed showte a very slayle

Some roped yᵉ hoke some yᵉ pōpe and some yᵉ laūce

Some yᵉ lōge bote dyde laūce some mēde yᵉ corse

Mayne corfe toke in a refe by force

And they that were abyll drewe at the cabyll

Some the anker layde some at the plōpe a sayll swepe

One kepte yᵉ compas and watched yᵉ our glasse

Some yᵉ lodysshestōe dyd seke some yᵉ bote dyd

Some made knottes of lynkes endes                                       C i b.

Some the stay rope suerly byndes

Some a satte borte a stare borde

Some the standerdes oute dyde brynge

Some one the shrowedes dyde clyme

Some couched a hogges heed vnder a hatche

Some threwe out bayte fysshe to catche

Some pulled vp the bonauenture

Some to howes the tope sayle dyde entre

Some stered at the helme behynde

Some whysteled after the wynde

There was non that there was

But he had an offyce more or lasse

Than Cocke Lorell dyde his whystele blowe

That all his men sholde hym knowe

With that they cryed and made a shoute

That the water shoke all aboute

Than men myght here the ores classhe

And on the water gaue many a dasshe

They sprede theyr sayles as voyde of sorowe

Forthe they rowed Saint George to borowe

For Ioy their trūpettes dyde they blowe

And some songe heue and howe rombelowe

They sayled fro garlyke hede to knaues in

And a pele of gonnes gan they rynge

Of colman hedge a sight they had

That made his company very glad

For there they thought all to play

Bytwene tyborne and chelsay

With this man was a lusty company

For all raskyllers fro them they dyde trye                                       C ii a.

They banysshed prayer peas and sadnes

And toke with them myrthe sporte and gladnes

They wolde not haue vertu ne yet deuocyon

But ryotte and reuell with ioly rebellyon                                       C ii b.

They songe and daunsed full merely

With swerynge and starynge heuen hye

Some said yᵗ they were gētle mē of grete myght

That ther purses were so lyght

And some wente in fured gownes and gay shone

That had no mo faces than had the mone

Of this daye gladde was many a brothell

That myght haue an ore with Cocke Lorell

Thus they daunsed with all theyr myght

Tyll that phebus had lost his lyght

But than came lucyna with all her pale hewe

To take her sporte amonge the cloudes blewe

And marcury he trewe downe his goldē bemes

And sperus her syluer stremes

That in the worlde gaue so grete lyght

As all the erth had be paued with whyte

Thā Cocke wayed anker and housed his sayle

And forthe he rowed without fayle

They sayled England thorowe and thorowe

Vyllage towne cyte and borowe

They blessyd theyr shyppe whan they had done

And dranke about saynt Iulyans torne

Than euery man pulled at his ore

With that I coulde se them no more

But as they rowed vp the hyll

The bote swayne blewe his whystell full shryll

And I wente homwarde to mowe shame stere

With a company dyde I mete

As ermytes monkes and freres

Chanons chartores and inholders                                       C iij a.

And many whyte nonnes with whyte vayles

That was full wanton of theyr tayles

To meet with Cocke they asked how to do                                       C iij b.

And I tolde them he was a go

Than were they sad euerychone

And went agayne to theyr home

But my counseyll I gaue them there

To mete with Cocke another yere

No more of Cocke now I wryte

But mery it is whan knaues done mete

Cocke had in his hande a grete route

The thyrde persone of Englande

Thus of Cocke Lorell I make an ende

And to heuen god your soules sende

That redeth this boke ouer all

Chryst couer you with his mantell perpetuall.

AMEN.

Here endeth Cocke Lorelles bote. Imprynted at London in the Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne by Wynkyn de Worde.

Reprinted at ABERDEEN by MILNE & HUTCHISON.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Padder, or Rumpadder, a thief.—SLANG DICTIONARY.

[2] Maunder, a beggar.—SLANG DICTIONARY.

[3] Dibdin’s Ames, Vol. II., p. 352.

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PREFACE.

COCKE LORELLES BOTE.

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