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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09017	The penniles parliament of threed-bare poets: or, All mirth and wittie conceites; Jacke of Dover, his quest of inquirie, or his privy search for the veriest foole in England. Part 2.		1608 (1608)	STC 19307; ESTC S110366	5,472	20

THE PENNILES PARLIAMENT OF Threed-bare Poets OR All mirth and wittie Conceites PRINTED At London for William Barley and are to be sold at his shoppe in Gratious streete neere Leaden-hall gate 1608. Heere beginneth the Penniles Parliament of threed-bare Poets FIrst of all for the increase of euery Foole in his humour wee thinke it necessarie conuenient that all such as buyes this Booke and laughes not at it before he hath read it ouer shall be condemned of Melancholy and be adiudged to walke ouer More-fieldes twise a weeke in a foule Shirt and a payre of Bootes but no Stockinges It is also agreed vpon that long Bearded men shall seldome prooue the wisest and that a Niggards purse shall scarce bequeath his Maister a good Dinner and because Water is like to prooue so weake an element in the world that men and women will want Teares to bewayle their sinnes wee charge and commaunde all Gardners to sow more store of Onions for feare Widdowes should want moysture to bewayle their Husbandes Funerals In like maner we thinke it fit that Red-wine should be drunke with Oysters and that some Maydens shall blush more for shame then for shamefastnes But men must haue care least conuersing too much with Red-Petticoates they bannish their Haire from their heads and by that meanes make the poore Barbers beggers for want of worke 〈…〉 that shall know his owne father I● shall be lawfull for some to haue a Pal●e in their 〈◊〉 such 〈◊〉 as they shall ●have more then 〈…〉 they 〈…〉 Pay for 〈…〉 as they shall 〈…〉 in other 〈◊〉 Wife from their 〈◊〉 some such a stopping in their Hearts as they shall be vtterly obstinate to receiue Grace some such a 〈◊〉 in their 〈◊〉 as they shall be enemies to good counsell some such 〈…〉 Moses as no Feast shall escape without their Companies and some shall be so Needy as neither Young Heyres shall get their owne nor poore Orphans their Patrimonie Also it is 〈◊〉 and Decreed that some shall be so 〈…〉 as they cannot Step but 〈…〉 some so cons●ed in 〈◊〉 as they shall keepe neuer a good thought to blesse themselues some so disguised in purse as they 〈◊〉 it fatall to 〈◊〉 one Penny to buy their dinners on Sundayes some so 〈…〉 as they cou●t wrong fast ●ea●ing the 〈…〉 of their occupation But amongst other Lawes Statutes by vs heere establishes we thinke it most necessary and conuenient that Pou●… shall kill 〈…〉 Poultry by custome thou their 〈…〉 May●es can sell with a Good Conscience also it is ordered and agreed vpon that B●ke●s Woodmongers But thers Bre●●ers shall fall to a mighty Conspiracie so that no Man shall either haue Bread Fire Meat or Drinke without c●●dite or ready Mony Sicaphants by the Statute shall haue great giftes and Good and Godly Labours shall scarce be worth thanks it is also thought necessary that Maides about midnight shall see wondrous visions to the great hart-griefe of their Mothers Furthermore it is marked set downe that if Lawyers plead poore mens causes without mony westminster Hall shall grow out of custome to the great impovershing of al Nimmers Lifters Cutpurses Those that sing bases shall loue good drinke by authority and Trumpeters that sound trebles shall stare by custome Women that weare long Gownes may lawfully rayse oust in March and they that keepe a Temperate Dyet shall neuer die on surfets In like manner it shall be Lawfull for Saylors and Souldiers to spend at their pleasures what they get by their Sword and if the Treasurer pay them any thing beyond count and reckoning if they buyld not an Hospitall therewith they may Bestow it in Apparrell by the statute It is further established and agreed vpon that they that drinke too much Spanish Sacke shall about Iuly be serued with a Fiery faces but Oh you Ale-knightes you that deuour the Marrow of the Mault and Drinke whole Aletubs into Consumptions that sing Queene Dido ouer a Cup and tell Strang Newes ouer an Ale pot how vnfortunate are you who shall Pisse out that It is further agreed vpon and establish that many strange euents shall happen in those houses where the Mayde is predominant with her Maister and wants a Mistresse to looke narrowly vnto her Also we thinke it conuenient that some shall take their Neighbours bed for their owne some the seruant for the Maister and if Candles could tell tales some will take a Familiar for a flea Also we thinke it meete that there should be many Fowlers who in stead of Lackes will each Lobcokes and many for want of wit shall sell their Freehold for Tabacco pipes and red petticoats Likewise we thinke it conuenient that there should be many Takers some would be taken for wise men who indeed are very Fooles for some will take crake Angels of poore debters and a quart of Malmesie when they cannot get a pottle But stay a while whether are we carried leauing the greatest Lawes vnpublished and establishing the lesse therefore we enact and ordaine as a necessary Statute that there shall great contentions fall betweene Souldiers and Archers and if the fray be not desided at a p●t of Ale and a blacke Pudding great bloodshed is like to ensue for some shall maintaine that a Turke can be hit at twelue score Pricks in Fiendsbury fields Ergo the bow and shafts wan Bullen other shall say that a Pot-gun is a dangerous weapon against a Mudwall and an enemy to the painters worke amongst these controuersies wee will send forth our commission to God Cupid being an Archer who shall deside the doubt and prooue that Archery is Heauenly for in meditation thereof he hath lost his eyes Oh gentle fellow Souldiers then leaue your controuersies if you loue a Woman for I will proue it that a Mince Pie is better than a Musket and he that dare gaine-say me let him meete me at the Dagger in Cheape with a Case of Pewter-Spoones and I will answeare it and if I proue not that a Mince-pie is the better Weapon let me Dine twice a Weeke at Duke Humpheries table It is furthermore established that the foure 〈◊〉 at the Cardes shall sodainely leape from out the bunch and Desperately Pranke about the new Play-house to seeke out their old Maister Captaine Crop-eare also it is thought meete that some men in these daies shall be polliticke beyond reason and write more in one line then they can proue in an age Furthermore it shall be Lawfull for some to Study which way they may walke to get them a Stomacke to their meat whilst other are as carefull to get meat to put in their bellies likewise there shall be great persecution in the Common-meale of Kitchin-fees so that some desperate Woman shall boyle try and seeth poore tallow to the generall commoditie of all the whole company of Tallow Chandlers Alas alas how are we troubled to thinke on these dangerous times for Taylors by Act of Parliament may Lawfully