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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90431	The pennilesse parliament of threed-bare poets or, The merry fortune-teller, wherein all persons of the four severall complexions may finde their fortunes. Composed by Doctor Merry-man: not onely to purge melancholy: but also to procure tittering and laughing. Full of witty mirth, and delightfull recreation, for the content of the reader.	Doctor Merry-man.	1649 (1649)	Wing P1398; Thomason E1379_2; ESTC R209360	7,157	16

The pennilesse PARLIAMENT of Threed-bare Poets OR The merry Fortune-teller Wherein all persons of the four severall Complexions may finde their FORTVNES COMPOSED By Doctor Merry-man Not onely to purge Melancholy but also to procure Tittering and Laughing Full of witty mirth and delightfull recreation for the content of the Reader London printed for John Wright a● the Kings Head in the Old Bayley 1649. 7 ber 20 1649 Here beginneth the pennilesse Parliament of Threed-bare Poets FIrst of all for the increase of every foole in his humour we thinke it necessary and convenient that all such as doe buy this Booke and laugh not at it before they have read it over shall be condemned of melancholy and be adjudged to walke over Moore-fields twice a weeke in a foule shirt and a paire of bootes but no stockings at all on It is also agreed upon that long bearded men shall seldome prove the wisest and that a niggards purse shall scarce bequeath his Master a good dinner and because water is like to prove so weake an Element in the world that men and women will want teares to bewaile their sins we charge and command all Gardiners to sow more store of Onions for feare widdows should want moysture to bewaile their Husbands funerals In like manner we thinke it sit that Red-wine should be drunk with Oysters and that some maidens shal blush more for shame then for shamefastnesse but men must have care lest conversing too much with red Petticoats they banish the haire from their heads and by that meanes make the poore Barbers beggers for want of worke Furthermore it is lawfull for those women that every morning take a pinte of Muskedine with egges to chide as well as they that drink small beere all the winter and those that clip that they should not clip shall shave a horse-night-clap for their labour Eentiemen that sell land for Paper shall buy penury with repentance and those that have most gold shall have least grace some that meane well shall fare worse and he that hath no credit shall have lesse e commodity It is also ordered and agreed upon that such as are cholericke shall never want woe and sorrow and they that lacke money may fast upon Fridayes by the Statute and it shall be lawfull for them that want shooes to weare boots all the yeare and he that hath never a cloake may without offence put on his best gowne at Mid-summer witnesse old Prime the keeper of Bedlem Dicinghouse Furthermore we thinke it necessary and lawfull for the husband and wife to fall at square for superiority in such sort as the wife shall sit playing above in the Camber while the husband stands panting below in the Kitching Likewise we marke all Brokers to be knaves by letters pattents and Vsurers for five marks a peece shall lawfully be buried in the Chancell though they have bequeatheed their soules and bodies to the Devill in hell In like manner it is thought good that it shall be lawfull for Muskedines in Vinteners cellers to indite their Masters of commixtion and Sargeants shall be contented to arrest any man for his fees Ale-wives shal sel flesh on Fridayes without licence and such as sell Béere in halfe penny pots shall utter Bread and Chéese for money throughout the whole yeare and those that are past honesty and shame shall smile at sinne and they that care not for God prefer their money before any good conscience Furthermore it shall bee lawfull for Footstooles by the helpe of womens hands to flye about without wings and poore men shall bee accounted knaves without occasions and those that flatter least shall speed worst and Pigges by the statute shall dance the Anticks with bels about their necks to the wonder and amazemen of all Swineherds In like manner it is convenient that many men shall weare hoads that have little learning and some surfeit so much upon wit and strive so long against the stream as at last their necks shall faile them some shall build faire houses by brides and gather much wealth by contention and before they be aware heap up riches for another and wretchednesse for themselves Furthermore it shall be established for the benefit of increase that some shall have a Limpany in their bellies which will cost them a Child bearing and though the Father beare all the charges it shall be a wise Childe that shall know his own Father It shall be lawfull for some to have the palsie in their teeth in such sort as they shall eate more then ever they will be able to pay for Some shall have such a Megram in their eyes as they shall hardly know another mans wife from their own Some shall have such a stopping in their hearts as they shall be utterly obstinate to receive grace Some sort of people shall have such a buzzing in their eares as they shall be enemies to good counsell Some such there be that have a sent or smell in their noses as no feast shall escape without their companies and some shall be so needy as neither young Heires shall get their owne nor poore Ophants their patrimony Also it is enacted and decreed that some shall be so humorous in their walkes as they cannot step one foot from a foole Some so disguised in purse as they count it fatall to have one penny to buy their dinners on Sundayes some so burdened in conscience as they count wrongfull dealing the best badge of their occupation But amongst other Lawes and Statutes by us here established we thinke it most necessary and convenient that poulterers shall kill more innocent Poultry by custome then their wives and maides can sell without good conscience Also it is ordered and agreed upon that Bakers Woodmongers Butchers Brewers shall fall to a mighty conspiracy so that no man shall either have bread fire meate or drinke without credit or ready money Sycophants by the Statute shall have great gifts and good and godly labours shall scarce be worth thanks it is also thought necessary that maides about mid-night shall see wondrous visions to the great heart-grief of their mothers Furthermore it is marked and set downe that if Lawyers pleade poore mens causes without money Westminster hall shall grow out of custome to the great impoverishing of all Nimmers Lifters and Cutpurses Those that sing bases shall love good drinke by authority and Trumpeters that sound Treble shall starve by custome Women that ware long Gownes may lawfully raise dust in March and they that keepe a temperate diet shall never dye on surfets In like manner it shall be lawfull for Saylers and Souldiers to spend at their pleasures what they can get by their Sword and if the Treasurer or purser of the ship pay them any money beyond count and reckoning if they build not an Hospitall therewith they may bestow it on apparell by the Statute It is furthermore established and agreed upon that they that drinke too much Spanish Sack● shall about