Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).
Original spelling and typography is retained, except that superscripts, long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.
Line identifiers are those used for line types in the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.
Collected from Joe and Hilda Lawson, 1990 by Sue Mycock (now Allen).
"...between them, the one filling in the gaps when the other faltered, Hilda and Joe recited - with not a little argument over details of exact wording - the text of a complete, if short, mummers play. They'd performed it at Christmas time, going from house to house through the village when they were children. 'It was just something you did then, wasn't it?' They'd [not] done it for sixty-odd years, but still the words were there, engraved in childhood memory.
'It was the boys that did it,' they told me (I never did find out how Hilda knew it so well!) 'But we had no special costume you know,' said Joe, 'Just father's auld clothes, turned inside out; caps turned back to front and wi' blacked faces.'"