Where I was looking a long hour, before these folks came here.
But, wellaway! all was in vain; my nee'le is never the near.

_Hodge._ Set me a candle, let me seek, and grope wherever it be.
Gog's heart, ye be foolish (ich think), you know it not when you
it see.

_Gammer._ Come hither, Cock: what, Cock, I say!

_Cock._ How, Gammer?

_Gammer._ Go, hie thee soon, and grope behind the old brass pan,
Which thing when thou hast done,
There shalt thou find an old shoe, wherein, if thou look well,
Thou shalt find lying an inch of white tallow candle:
Light it, and bring it tite away.

_Cock._ That shall be done anon.

_Gammer._ Nay, tarry, Hodge, till thou hast light, and then we'll
seek each one.

_Ralph Roister Doister_ and _Gammer Gurton's Needle_ mark the end of the
Interlude stage and the commencement of Comedy proper. Leaving the
latter at this point for the present, we shall return in the next
chapter to study its fortunes at the hands of Lyly.

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Morality Plays, though theoretically quite as suitable for tragic effect