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A09201	A merry discourse of Meum, and Tuum, or, Mine and Thine tvvo crosse brothers, that make strife and debate wheresoever they come; vvith their descent, parentage, and late progresse in divers parts of England. By H.P.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1639 (1639)	STC 19510; ESTC S114329	20,111	44

laugh at or pity him away then goes Tuum to the water side and taking a Boate leaves Meum to follow at his leasure The same night both meeting with either at Westminster they related their hard fortune professing never to come any more among Dogges and Beares but the Terme being at hand to keepe company with Lawyers and their Clients onely The Terme being come they now thought it best to acquaint themselves with some understanding Attorneys and Clerks of the Innes of Chancery who might aswell set them in a way to practise as to get them acquaintance and first they enquired for Lions Inne a Country Careier directed them to the Tower where the Lions were which when they had found they grew acquainted with many Students who were Cornish and Devonshire Gentlemen who when Meum and Tuum had related unto them their names whence they came and those various accidents that had befell them in their journey ever since they came from Wrangle made very much of them imagining they had beene great Students and very expert in the Lawes but being examined and throughly tried by a very honest Attorney of that house who wanted his sight he found them to be nothing else then incendiaries and make-bates in the Common wealth and wished them to live in the country and rather go make peace among their neighbours then set them at variance for we quoth he who are Attorneys if men would be quiet and agree among themselves would never intreate or sue for imployment from them but when as sutes by delay or neglect as wounds beginne to fester and gangrene then indeed we ought as Surgeons to doe our best to make an easie and speedy cure with many other good Adviso's which they little regarded but taking their leaves went to some houses I will not name where they found good respect and entertainment And finding some encouragement to Westminster they goe where looking about them they admired the largenes statelinesse of the Hall and above that the timber of the roofe having been there so long should be without Cobwebs perhaps quoth Tuum they are swept downe against the Terme quoth Meum thou art a foole all Kentstreete cannot afford a beesome so long a country man over hearing them answered the roofe was made of Irish timber which no Spider durst touch if there were any Cobwebs they were beneath about the Clarks and Notaries Seates which are seldome or never swept When they had sufficiently gazed about and observed as much as they could comming out with the Country man they viewed well the great dore of the Hall where they espied two Stags Couchand with Crownes about their necks and chaines thwart their backs they asked the reason of their being there the Country man said doubtlesse it was because so much Venison had beene eaten in that Hall when the Kings of England held their great feasts there Tuum thought rather they were some tame Deere because of their chaines but the truth is the Hall of Westminster was built anew by K. Richard the second and they were his Badges for the Kings Mother whom the blacke Prince married was widdow to Lord Holland Earle of Kent and being one of the most beautifullest Ladies of England and called the faire Mayd of Kent before her marriage She gave for her Devise or Crest the white Hind which her Sonne the King altered into a Stagge But to returne to our new Termers Meum and Tuum within a day or two they ordered the matter so that they gat acquaintance in all the Courts of Westminster and in no long time by observation and practise they grew so expert that they were still at one end of every Cause that was pleaded not a Counsellor nor Attorney belonging either to the Kings Bench Commonpleas or any other Court but grew acquainted with them and many times in friendly manner would salute them w th Good morrow Mr. Meum Save you Mr. Tuum I pray let me see you at my Chamber I have beene and so have we all much beholding unto you for your acquaintance and furtherance wee many times fare the better for you yet Meum and Tuum they were like the Whetstone that could sharpen every thing yet it selfe was blunt they could enrich others yet were ever in want for indeed men ever by sutes and contention begger themselves as we see by daily experience howbeit they gat sufficient to maintaine them hand somly and now and then to go to the Dogge Taverne at Westminster who I remember the last day of the Terme bit Meum fearefully to bid a friend to Supper and the like and whereas before they were called by their bare names only they were called now Mr. Meum and Mr. Tuum Now having beene throughly acquainted with Westminster but Westminster better with them and some three or foure Termes past and the long Vacation comming on they heard there was a controversie between certaine Gentlemen Projectors and of the Country where they were borne about the vast and spatious Fennes thereabout whereupon imagining there might bee good fishing in those troubled waters they resolved to goe downe thither to make a division among them if they could not agree among themselves So putting money convenient in their purse away for their Country they go playing many merry trickes by the way which would fill three such bookes as this if I should recount them in order Now by the way if they should happen to want money Meum resolved to take upon him the name and profession of a Physitian and to cure all manner of diseases and griefes by stroking the part pained and uttering some few words by way of charme as you shall heare anon Tuum would like a Gypsey be a teller of Fortunes especially to widdowes and young wenches and indeed they got hereby much money and grew famous One thing I must not forget by the way as they went three or fourescore miles from London as they walked downe a Lane a great shower of raine fell which constrained them to goe through a Gentlemans yard who had beene a Iustice of the Peace and was sitting in a wicker chaire and the Constable of that Parish a little distance off upon an Hogstrough to see his Swine ringed the Iustice was clad in cloth spunne in his owne house seldome came he up to London but ever staid at home keeping a good house among his neighbours Meum and Tuum passing by saluted him with all due respect my friends quoth he you are welcome where is your dwelling quoth Meum An 't please your worship in Westminster in a place called Theeving Lane and my Brother about or neare to Hell by my honesty quoth he both bad and naughty places I wonder my fellow Iustices thereabouts will take no order with that Lane either to place honest men in it or to remoove it further off from his Majesties Court I have heard that in Queen Elizabeth's time much Pla●e Hangings and other things

names are Meum and Tuum Body a mee quoth Master Lime I never saw you indeed I have beene much beholding to some of your name those are neere of kinne to us quoth Meum it may bee wee are those you meane quoth Lime Twig set some stooles and give me your hands Meum and Tuum have helped mee to many a fee but now I have given over my practise I have sold my Chamber at London now I keep home and love to make peace amongst my honest poore neighbours for I tell you we live in a jangling corner Master Meum doe your brother and you follow the Law still I meane your soliciting causes No Sir quoth Meum it is now not Terme time but a dead Vacation and I addict my selfe to avoid idlenesse to the practise of Physicke Heaven Sir hath given mee a great gift to cure any manner of disease only by stroking whether in Man Woman or beast it is very rare and a wonderfull gift indeed Twig fetch me a Cup of Beere and Master Meum if I may see you in the morning I will trie your skill upon this lame legge of mine I lie long a bed you may come when it pleaseth you but faile not so good night to you both quoth Lime They taking their leaves went home and having sup'd betook themselves to their lodgings now there being two Beds in one Chamber where they were to lye for they never lay together they fell out for the best Bed but drowsinesse and desire of rest being tired with long journeyes decided their difference Vp they rise the next morning Meum goes to Master Limes and being by Twigge brought up to his Chamber there lay upon a mat under Lime's bed a foule crop-eard Curre which a Scrivener had given him not long before whom they called interest a fierce a cruell Mastive for where he laid hold you could hardly get him off and commonly he would make his teeth meere he spying Meum in somewhat a strange habit and a part of his shirt hanging out at his knee flies suddenly upon him teares his breeches downe from the wast to his hammes Meum cries out Twigge who was gone downe the staires comes running up crying to Interest come out out here you Curre the Divell take him quoth Meum hee comes out too fast I pray Master Twigge call him in I have told you often enough quoth Master Lime to Twigge of letting this Dogge bee untied come Interest you must bee friends with Meum and Tuum by the rules of Lillie a Taylor shall be sent for to mend your hose I but quoth Meum by the law of Littleton it is otherwise but there is no remedy against a mischance I pray you quoth Lime to looke upon my Legge and tell mee how you like it I will assure you Sir quoth Meum though it bee now gouty and much swelled it appeareth to be a very straight and an handsome Leg and I beleeve you have been an excellent dancer in your younger dayes indeed a pretty one for I danced out of the North to this Towne but with fourteene pence in my Purse and I have a pretty convenient estate of some five hundred by the yeare and not a Child living but I pray Sir looke upon my Legge Meam tuckes up his sleeves warmes his hands stroking his Legge and Foot above and beneath gently touching every Toe then casting up his eyes after a ceremonious manner pronounceth these words in the Bohemish tongue Uobiesh lesa● atac zhogi le non hatua Which in Latine is suspende corpus pes sanabitur that is hang up the body and the Legge will mend which done and his Legge bound up againe I promise you quoth Master Lime I finde pretty good Pase already Twigge give Master Meum halfe a e eece for his paines toward the mending of his Breeches and Master Meum I heartily thanke you if any of my neighbours stand in neede of your helpe I will bring you acquainted with them how long stay you in Towne Wee are uncertaine Tuum hath some imployment I beleeve and cannot yetgoe although our imployment is ike to bee great when wee come among the Fennes for indeed that way wee are going but shortly to returne toward London then I pray let me see you as you returne backe Meum promised hee would and so tooke his leave but going downe the staires Twig followed him at heeles and whispers him closelie in the eare that hee had a friend hard by which was an handsome one indeed a Tanners daughter who was his sweet-heart who was troubled with a great swelling and if he could doe her any good hee should have content to his desire but that cure passed Meum's skill Tuum was not idle all this while at his Hostesses for by her meanes he had gotten many Clients who came to him for goods lost and stollen as Hogges straied away Turkies stollen a Maid came to Tuum for a silver Spoone stolne out of the Noursery another made pitifull moane to Tuum for the losse of his wife who was runne away with a Miller besides something he got for telling Maides and Widdowes their fortunes Meum to endeare himselfe the more for rarity is the mother of admiration kept himselfe close in his Chamber and if any had occasion to use him they mustrepaire unto him at night or earlie in the morning at what time there resorted unto him people of all sorts Ladies Gentlewomen and other honest Women for sore Breasts swellings in the Throate Cankers in the mouth the Toothach and all griefes else whatsoever Meum seeing his Patients come so thicke grew into an humorous pride that hee would stroke but whom hee listed and when hee listed but howsoever in few dayes they had gotten nine or tenne pounds so that they thought it was now high time to bee going remembring well that Ficta persona non diu geritur overnight making even with their Hostesse away they went the next morning But this one thing fell out most strangelie that as many as Meum had stroked both men women and children very presently after fell cruelly out one with another Master Lime sued the Parson of the Towne Women of the better sort the next Holy-day fell out flat in the Church for place and precedency who forsooth should sit uppermost in the same seat which quarrell the Minister of the place would moderate and settle with good words in this or the like manner I thinke honest neighbours and friends there ought in the Church saving for decency in the placing of Magistrates and chiefe Governours to be no difference and this ambition for place and superiority in the Church cannot be but foolish if not impious when time in not many yeares will make no difference in lodging you even in those Alleyes you sit in and tread upon therefore I have heard it is a custome in the Netherlandr for Burgers wives and their daughters every one to carie their Leather little chaires to Church with them there taking their places as they fall Another wife to a Rope-maker at a Churching would eate no meate because a Ioyners wife sate above her but do what they listed Meum and Tuum had got themselves away and were farre enough Being come at last downe into their native Countrie among the Fennes which seemed to bee in Controversie betweene the Projectors and the Country they found all things appeased and quiet all parties were agreed and nothing remained for Meum and Tuum to worke upon whereupon they resolved to goe farther Northward but even at this time they hearing of old Harpax their Father's death backe they returned to Wrangle where I heare they are now in sute at strife for his land and goods Meum affirming himselfe to be the elder Brother Tuum saith hee is as old as he for they bee twinnes which is like to prevaile wee shall know at this next Terme when they returne up to London In the meane time I leave them wrangling at their Native Towne of Wrangle where I first found them FINIS Imprimatur Sa. Baker Lond. 1638. Octo. 1.