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Revision as of 19:30, 24 February 2016
Historical Records
Print fragment
Five fragments from 2 leaves (E1 and E3) survive at the Huntington Library:
Anon., [Enterlude of detraction, light judgment, verity, and justice], [London : S.n., ca. 1550], RB 131401:11 (fragment).
(Reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.)
The ordering of the fragments below follows Katharine Pantzer's conjectural reconstruction (typescript and MS notes accompanying the fragments at the Huntington, made in October 1973):
sig.E1r | sig.E1v | |
sig.E3r | sig.E3v | |
Transcription
Ts to confounde | |||
And cast to grounde | |||
Bothe man and chylde | |||
As for you and me | |||
Our apparrell chaunged must be | |||
This aray is to wylde | |||
And by saynt James | |||
Bothe our names | |||
Must be of more grauyte | |||
Ye shall be callyd wysdom | |||
And I by my halydom | |||
Reformacyon wyll be | |||
For many tymes Detraccyon | |||
Pretendeth correccyon | |||
By sad dyreccyon | |||
To refourme yll | |||
And yet there is but dissymulacyon | |||
To optayne his owne wyll | |||
For ere it longe be | |||
Hether wyll com Veryty | |||
For to se true Justice | |||
Our saynge than must be | |||
How he is ouer the see | |||
Into the lande of Fryse | |||
And so shall take his way | |||
Streight ouer to sauoy | |||
And so forth to Boeme | |||
And from thens to Germanie | |||
And so com home by Ytalie | |||
Heretykes to reclayme | |||
light iu. | ¶And by the way here and there | ||
E i.r | |||
To confounde Luthere | |||||||
And all his hole rable | |||||||
And lefte worde by you & me | |||||||
That to hym sholde veryte | |||||||
Hye hym in all haste possyble | |||||||
But whan this matter is broken | |||||||
It must be holyly spoken | |||||||
And with a fayre face | |||||||
Thy wordes must be sure | |||||||
And they countenaunce so demure | |||||||
As though that father grace | |||||||
From heuyn were com downe | |||||||
In his owne person | |||||||
With angels great and smale | |||||||
Detrac. | ¶How cum in our chamberere | ||||||
That we apparellyd were | one bryngeth | ||||||
Accordynge to our tale | them aparell. | ||||||
light iu. | ¶ | ||||||
Yf we handle it | |||||||
with worde and countenaunce wysely | |||||||
detrac. | ¶As well as we may | ||||||
Let vs assay | |||||||
To do it diligently | |||||||
veryty, | ¶ O lorde what rumour, and what busynes | ||||||
How greuous slaūdre, what defamacyon | |||||||
what dysorder, what wrathe, & vnkyndnes | |||||||
Dayly is had in comunicacion | |||||||
There is no regarde, nor no repetacyon | |||||||
But each man other, putteth to exaccyon | |||||||
Thrugh Light iudgement, & vyle detraccyon. | |||||||
If Justyce wyll nat prouyde remedy | |||||||
I fere in haste, each man shall other kyll | |||||||
E 1.v | |||||||
Of blood and kynred | |||
In fayth no poynt at all | |||
veryty, | ¶Well syrs I perceyue ye be | ||
Frendes of Justice and me | |||
And of Vertue substancyall | |||
In our absence se how that | |||
Detraccyon do nat | |||
Nor yet Light Judgement | |||
The people put in fray | |||
But euer as ye may | |||
Let them haue punisshement | |||
And at our retourne agayne | |||
we shall se to your payne | |||
As ye shall be content | |||
light iu. | ¶Of them | ||
And euer doth renew | |||
His myschief parde | |||
wherfore comonly | |||
He iudgeth vntruly | |||
All men as yll as he | |||
detrac. | ¶Than to Detraccyon | ||
He gyueth instruccyon | |||
Of many a knauyssh sentence | |||
And no other grounde | |||
By them can be founde | |||
But theyr owne lewde conscyence | |||
By god that me bought | |||
They haue ben bothe nought | |||
All theyr lyfe days | |||
E i.i.j. | |||
Theatrical Provenance
Unknown.
Probable Genre(s)
Moral (Wiggins).
Possible Narrative and Dramatic Sources or Analogues
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References to the Play
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Critical Commentary
See Wiggins 208.
For What It's Worth
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Works Cited
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