Note 8 — THE TRUE STORY OF WAT TYLER. BY S. G. G.
Reading edition
The contemporary poet, Gower, has described one aspect of the rebellion in some Latin verses which amusingly indicate the names most common among the populace:—
Watte vocat, cui Thome venit, neque Symme retardat, Bette que, Gibbe simul, Hykke venire jubet, Colle furit, quem Gibbe juvat, nocumenta parantes, Cum quibus ad damnum Wille coire vovet, Grigge rapit, dum Davve strepit, comes est quibus Hobbe, Larkin et in medio non minor esse putat, Hudde ferit, quos Judde terit, dum Tebbe juvatur, Jakke domos virosque vellit, et ense necat.
Some of the chroniclers represent “Jack Straw” as only an alias of Wat Tyler, but they were evidently two different persons.