| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| What say you Maister? | What say you, master? | Per II.i.15 |
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| Fayth Maister, I am thinking of the | Faith, master, I am thinking of the | Per II.i.18 |
| poore men, / That were cast away before vs euen now. | poor men that were cast away before us even now. | Per II.i.19 |
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| Nay Maister, sayd not I as much, | Nay, master, said not I as much | Per II.i.23 |
| When I saw the Porpas how he bounst and tumbled? | when I saw the porpoise how he bounced and tumbled? | Per II.i.24 |
| They say they're halfe fish, halfe flesh: / A plague on them, | They say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them, | Per II.i.25 |
| they nere come but I looke to be washt. / Maister, I | they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I | Per II.i.26 |
| maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea? | marvel how the fishes live in the sea? | Per II.i.27 |
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| But Maister, if I had been the | But, master, if I had been the | Per II.i.36 |
| Sexton, I would haue been that day in the belfrie. | sexton, I would have been that day in the belfry. | Per II.i.37 |
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| Because he should haue swallowed | Because he should have swallowed | Per II.i.39 |
| mee too, / And when I had been in his belly, I would haue | me too, and when I had been in his belly I would have | Per II.i.40 |
| kept such a iangling of the Belles, / That he should neuer | kept such a jangling of the bells that he should never | Per II.i.41 |
| haue left, / Till he cast Belles, Steeple, Church and Parish vp | have left till he cast bells, steeple, church, and parish up | Per II.i.42 |
| againe: / But if the good King Simonides were of my | again. But if the good King Simonides were of my | Per II.i.43 |
| minde. | mind– | Per II.i.44 |
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| We would purge the land of these | We would purge the land of these | Per II.i.46 |
| Drones, / That robbe the Bee of her Hony. | drones that rob the bee of her honey. | Per II.i.47 |