The cytezen and uplondyshman Author:Alexander Barclay Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1 The third eclogue commences with Condon's complaint of having had a bad night's sleep and an ill dream:— Methought in the court I taken was in trap, And ... more »there sore handled, God give it an ill hap ; Me thought the scuUians, like fendes of their lookes, Came forthe with whittles, some other with fleshhokes. Methought that they stoode eche one about me thicke, With knives ready for to flay me quicke. And he assures his mate he is now so very sleepy, that he cannot keep awake, unless he will continue to " talke of some matters agayne, for God's sake." Comix proposes to continue his discourse of courts. Coridon asks, in astonishment, if he has not told all ? Cornix answers, " not by a thousand fblde"; and proposes to continue his tale, which is agreed on, and he then says:— Because that of sleeping was our first commoning, Heare nowe what paynes have courtiers in sleeping : They oftentime sleepe full wretchedly in payne, And lye all the night forth in colde, winde, and rayne ; Sometime in bare strawe, on bordes, ground, or stones, Till both their sides ake, and all their bones. And when that one side aketh and is wery, Then turne the other, lo here a remedy. Or els must he rise and walke himselfe a space, Till time his joyntes be settled in their place. But if it fortune thou lye within some towne, chapter{Section 4In bed of fethers, or els of easy downe, Then make thee ready for flyes, and for gnattes, For lise, for fleas, punaises, mise, and rattes. These shall with biting, with stinking, din, and sound, Make thee worse easement, then if thou lay on ground. And never in the court shalt thou have bed alone, Save when thou wouldest moste gladly lye with one. Thy shetes shal be uncleane, ragged, and rent, Lothly unt...« less