A merie newe Ballad intituled the pinnyng of the Basket:
And is to bee songe to the tune of the douneright Squire.
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IT was my hap of late to heare,
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a pretie jeste:
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The which by me as may appeare
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is here expreste.
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With tantara, tantara, tantara,
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for this belonges thereto:
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With bitter broyles, and bickeryng blose,
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and strife with muche adoe.
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Marke then for now this marvell strange,
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I will declare:
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A Joigner sent his man to change,
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money for ware.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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unto the toune he gose:
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And hasted to the Chandlers shop,
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his money to dispose.
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But see the chaunce the Chandler drie,
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was gone to drinke:
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Or els poore soule to plaie thereby,
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at sice and sincke:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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whereat his wife did chafe:
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And out she went then in a rage,
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to seeke her good man Rafe.
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She ranged forthe and could not reste,
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upon the molde:
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When she hym founde, the bedlam beaste,
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beganne to scolde:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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quoth she unthriftie knave:
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If thou be at the good Ale tappe,
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thou hast that thou wouldest have.
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This quiet man acquainted was,
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with her rough talke:
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And paciently doeth with her passe,
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and homeward walke.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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at home she founde hym plate:
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Till he had served his customer,
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and then beganne the fraie.
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For havyng doen, hold here quoth he,
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the Basket Dame:
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Goe gossip give it hym and see,
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you pinne the same.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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now doeth the sporte beginne:
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Knowe thou quoth she sir knave that I,
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the Basket will not pinne.
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Her housebande sore insenste did sweare,
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by stockes and stones:
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She should or els he would prepare,
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to baste her bones.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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quoth he Ile tame your tongue,
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And make you pinne the Basket to,
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doubt not ere it be long.
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Then with a bastian that stoode by,
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whiche he did smell:
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At her he freely did let flie,
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and bumbde her well
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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unguentum Bakaline:
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Did make this houswife quickly pinne,
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the Basket passyng fine.
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This pastyme pleased well the Page,
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that all this while:
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Sat on his horse, and sawe this rage,
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and bitter broyle:
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Tantara, tara, tantara.
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the good wife doeth retire,
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And swears she will no more deny,
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her housbandes just desire.
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The Basket pinde, the Page departes,
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when all is paied:
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He spurres his cutte, the Jade startes,
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he was so fraied:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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in haste he homewarde rides,
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Yet when he comes, for tariyng long,
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his Maister chafes and chides.
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His Mistres too as one halfe madde,
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beganne to rave:
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Because too long he taried had,
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she calde hym knave:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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he spake his Mistres faire:
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And tolde her she should knowe the cause,
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of his long tariyng there.
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Then boldly he began his tale,
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and tolde them all:
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Betwixt these two, how Beaudly Ale,
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had bred a braull:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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quoth he the Chandlers wife,
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Would not intreated be to pinne,
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the Basket for his life.
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Till he to beate her did beginne,
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with bounsyng bloose:
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Then quickly she in poste to pinne,
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the Basked goose:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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the Joigner joyes at this,
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But sure his wife to heare this tale,
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was quite bereft of blisse.
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The Joigners wife, [?]h[?] Dame,
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whose gallant grace,
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Was chaunged, now beganne to frame:
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a frounyng face:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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quoth she for all his bloose,
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The knave the Basket should have pinde,
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hymself spight of his nose.
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Here then her housebande did beginne,
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quoth he if I:
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Should bid you wife the Basket pinne,
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would you deny:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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to hym she plainly tolde,
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That she the Basket would not pinne,
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thereof he might be bolde.
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Then thei hereof for to conferre,
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doe haste to bedde:
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And here you see a seconde jarre,
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the Basket bredde:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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the thirde doeth now beginne,
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The sillie Page to get some meate,
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in haste doeth hye hym in.
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No whit amazde unto the maide,
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he straight doeth goe:
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The queane of hym no more afraide,
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beganne to crowe:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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caulyng hym knave and sot,
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And used hym that in the ende,
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a broken head he got.
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Henceforthe take heede of makyng strife,
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thou knave quoth she:
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Betwixt thy maister and his wife,
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where love should be:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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with greef her wordes he heares:
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But yet it grieved hym more to feele,
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the blood about his eares.
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Yet up he stept full stoutly then,
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and bomde me Jone,
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That she lent, he so paide againe,
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he made her grone.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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and getts his Supper too:
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And made her sitte and eate with hym,
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although with muche adoe.
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His maister on the morowe nexte,
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of this was glad:
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His mistres was herewith so vexte,
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it made her mad.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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this happe brynges joye and care:
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For now the Joigners wife to pinne,
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the Basket must prepare.
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Her housebande by his mans good happe,
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doeth hope to winne:
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And makes her now spite of her cappe,
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the Basket pinne:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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againe he doeth replie:
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Will you the Basket pinne or no,
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she stoutly doeth denie.
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Then with a bedstaffe he to baste,
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her doeth beginne:
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Yet would she not for all his haste,
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the Basket pinne:
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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this combate beyng doen:
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Unto a Justice house hard by,
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in haste this Dame doeth runne.
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And to this joylly Justice wife,
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discoveryng all:
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Betwixt her spouse and her what strife,
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did late befall.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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whom she would faine have bounde,
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Unto the peace if by the happe,
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there might suche meanes be founde.
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Of this her frende the francke consent,
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she sone had wone:
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To doe for her incontinent,
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what might be doen.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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this Justice wife now gose:
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Her gossipps sute in haste unto,
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her housebande to disclose.
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Her housebande hearyng by this tale,
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how all thynges stood:
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In mynde he at this jeste so stale,
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did laugh a good.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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a little more adoe:
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This Justice would have taught his wife,
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to pinne the Basket too.
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Now all good wives beware by this,
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your names to blot:
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The Basket pinne with quietnesse:
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denie it not.
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Tantara, tara, tantara,
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be counsailed by your frende:
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And of this Baskettes pinnyng now,
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enough and so an ende.
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