A breefe balet touching the traytorous
takynge of Scarborow Castell.
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OH valiaunt invaders gallants gaie.
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Who, with your compeeres conque-ringe the route,
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Castels or towrs: all standynge in your waie,
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Ye take, controlling all estates most stoute.
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Yet had it now bene good to looke aboute.
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Scarborow castel: to have let alone,
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And take scarborow warnynge everichone.
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By Scarborow castell, not Scarborow:
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I onely meane: but further understande,
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Eche Havene, eche hold, or other harborow,
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That our good Kyng and Queene do holde in hande:
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As dewe obedience bindth us in bande.
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Their Scarborow castels to let a lone,
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And take Scarborow warnings everychone.
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The scalers of which castells evermore,
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In bookes of olde, and in our eyes of new:
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Have alway lost them selves and theirs therfore.
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All this ye did forget: in time to vew.
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Which myght have wrought both you and yours teschew:
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Lettyng Scarborow castel now alone,
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Takyng Scarborow warnyng everychone.
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This Scarborow castell, symplie standyng:
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Yet could that castell slyly you begyle,
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Ye thought ye tooke the castell: at your landyng:
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The castell takyng you: in the selfe whyle.
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Eche stone within the castell wall did smyle,
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That Scarborow castell ye let not alone,
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And tooke Scarborow warnyng everychone.
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Your puttyng now in ure your dyvylishe dreame,
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Hath made you see (and lyke enough to feele)
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A fewe false traytours can not wynne a reame,
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Good subjectes be (and will be) trew as steele.
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To stand with you, the ende they lyke no deele.
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Scarborow castels they can lette alone,
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And take Scarborow warnyngs everychone.
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They know gods law: tobey their Kyng and Queene.
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Not take from them: but kepe for them their owne.
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And geve to them: when such traytours are seene
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As ye are now: to brynge all overthrowne:
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They woorke your overthrow, by gods power growne.
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God saith: let Scarborow castell alone,
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Take Scarborow warnyng everychone.
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To late for you, and in time for the rest
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Of your most traytorous sect (if any bee)
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You all are spectacles at full witnest:
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As other weare to you: treason to flee.
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Which in you past, yet may the rest of yee:
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The saide Scarborow castells let alone,
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And take Scarborow warnyngs everychone.
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This terme Scarborow warnyng, grew (some say)
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By hasty hangyng, for rank robbry theare.
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Who that was met, but suspect in that way,
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Streight was he trust up: what ever he weare.
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Wherupon theeves thynkyng good to forbeare,
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Scarborow Robbyng they let that alone,
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And tooke Scarborow warnyng everychone.
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If Robbyng in that way, bred hangyng so,
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By theft to take, way, towne, castell and all,
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What Scarborow hangyng craveth this lo:
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Weare your selves herein Judges capitall:
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I thinke your Judgementes on these woords must fall.
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Scarborow Robbyng who letth not alone,
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Scarborow hangyng deserve everychone.
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We wold to god that you (and al of yow)
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Had but considered: as wel as ye knew:
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The end of all traytorie, as you see it now.
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Long to have lived, lovyng subjectes trew.
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Alas: your losse we not rejoyse, but rew.
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That Scarborow castell ye leete not alone,
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And tooke Scarborow warnyng everychone.
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To crafts that ever thryve, wyse men ever cleave.
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To crafts that seeldwhen thryve, wyse men seeldwhen flee.
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The crafts that never thryve, a foole can learne to leave.
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This thriftles crafty crafte then clere leave we.
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One God, one Kynge, one Queene, serve franke and free.
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Their Scarborow castell let it alone,
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Take we Scarborow warning everichone.
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Our soveraigne lord: and soveraigne lady both.
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Lawde we our lorde, for their prosperitee.
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Beseching him for it: as it now goth,
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And to this daie hath gone, that it may bee:
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Continued so, in perpetuitee.
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We lettyng theyr Scarborow castells alone,
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Takyng Scarborow warnings everychone,
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