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Difference(s) between text #60474 and text #15130

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11Hoyda, Jolly Rutterkin, hoyda! Rutterkin is come unto our town
22 Like a rutter hoyda. In a cloak without coat or gown
33 save ragged hood to cover his crown
44Rutterkin is come unto our town Like a Rutterkin
55In a cloak without coat or gown, Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin!
66Save a ragged hood to cover his crown,
77 Like a rutter hoyda. Rutterkin can speak no English,
88 His tongue runneth all on butter'd fish,
99Rutterkin can speak no English, Besmear'd with grease about his dish,
1010His tongue runneth all on buttered fish, Like a Rutterkin
1111Besmeared with grease about his dish, Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin!
1212 Like a rutter hoyda.
1313 Rutterkin shall bring you all good luck,
1414Rutterkin shall bring you all good luck, A stoup of beer up at a pluck
1515A stoup of beer up at a pluck, Till his brain be as wise as a duck,
1616Till his brain be as wise as a duck, Like a Rutterkin
1717 Like a rutter hoyda. Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin!
1818
1919What now, let see, When Rutterkin from board shall rise,
2020Who looketh on me He will piss a gallon pot full at twice,
2121Well round about, And the overplus under the table of the new guise,
2222How gay and how stout Like a Rutterkin
2323That I can wear Hoyda, hoyda, jolly Rutterkin!
24Courtly my gear.
25
26My hair brusheth
27 So pleasantly,
28My robe rusheth
29 So ruttingly,
30Meseem I fly,
31 I am so light
32To dance delight.
33
34Properly dressed,
35 All point devise,
36My person pressed
37 Beyond all size
38Of the new guise,
39 To rush it out
40In every rout.
41
42 Beyond measure
43My sleeve is wide,
44 All of pleasure
45My hose strait tied,
46 My buskin wide
47Rich to behold,
48 Glittering in gold.
49
50Rutterkin is come, <I>etc.</I>

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