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The second part and knitting vp of the boke entituled Too good to be true Wherin is continued the discourse of the wonderfull lawes, commendable customes, [and] strange manners of the people of Mauqsun. Newely penned and published by Thomas Lupton.; Too good to be true. Part 2
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Lupton, Thomas.
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STC 16954; ESTC S109660
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Suters their néedfull and reasonable requests as you are willing yea when you are scant able to performe these your Suters demaunds then many poore Suters should not sue so long in vaine as they do nor yet go home without peny or purpose But I pray you what did these your importunate Suters desire of you Siuqila Forsooth mine eyes desired me to go to bed and my stomacke earnestly required me to go to supper Omen The tyme and place considered I thinke you were more able to performe the request of your Eyes then to graunt the request of your Stomacke Siuqila Be bold of that yet eche of them did plead their case so reasonably and defended the cause so cunningly that I could not well tell to whome I might encline Mine Eyes requested me moste earnestly to laye me downe to sléepe saying though you haue no trim chamber to lye in be content with the ground which your first father Adam was contēt to take for his couch And though here be no house nor roofe to defend you from cold yet the Aire is here so temperate that you can féele no cold and yet your lodging is not without a trimme goodly roofe A sure roofe which is the heauens of Gods owne making which you are sure will not fall downe and hurt you though the roofes made by men might fall downe and kill you And as for a fether bed care not for here is grasse and mosse wheron in this your necessitie you wil sléepe as soundly A preaty pleading as though you had the best bed in the world And then my Stomacke said Sir I beseech you consider as it is méete to graunt sléepe to your Eyes so it is more méete to allow meate for your Stomacke which of vs two you may best spare let him be last serued You may liue if you had no Eyes but you must néedes perish if you had no Stomacke you may well liue though you haue Eyes and sée not but you must néeds die though you haue a Stomacke and féede not And as your Eyes perswadeth you to be content with the grasse and mosse for your bedde so in this great necessitie it is very simple foode that will not satisfie me and be pleasaunt vnto you Then the Eyes replied agayn My liddes are so heauy that I cannot kéep them open and you sée it beginneth to be darke whereby I can stand you in small steade for if I were as willing to wake as I am desirous to winke you should be sure to wander wrong therfore you were better here to sléepe quietly then to wander you wot not whether daungerously marry if you were as sure to gette some foode for your Stomacke by trauelling in the dark as you are sure to gette a swéete nap by lying here in the darke I woulde not so earnestly perswade you Then my stomacke aunswered Sir wey not these wordes if you graunte them sléepe then I shal lacke my Supper and be a great while without meate but if I haue my supper your eyes shal not be long without sléepe naye thereby they shall be sure to haue the more sléepe Then sayde the Eyes verye vehemently the humyditie of your braine is so muche that vnlesse it be exhausted by sléepe I shal neuer be able to holde them open to directe you in your way Then sayde the Stomacke credite not your eyes herein for I haue ben so long empty that the brayne can haue no suche humiditie for the fume that ascendes from the Stomacke doeth make the braine moyste now if the Stomacke want foode wherof the fume doth grow then how can there be anye suche fume to bréede suche moysture of the brayne and so your braine hath no such aboundance of moysture as your Eyes do allege therfore I youre Stomacke haue muche more néede of meate than your eyes of sléepe naye rather take héede of too much sléepe for by sléeping the heate is thereby broughte from all the externall partes to the internal parts whereby the heate being maruellously encreased wil quicklye consume the little moysture within you and so the radical moysture will be in daunger to be extinct and then farewel life and thus if you graunte sléepe to your Eyes you maye happe to bring deathe to your self Then the Eyes sayd I praye you regarde not hys wordes they are but fables manye woulde faine sléepe if they might but you will not sléepe when you maye remember I beseeche you that many haue runne madde for wante of sléepe then my Stomacke aunswered again quickly but a great sort 〈◊〉 haue dyed for want of foode Then my Eyes said to me verie mourninglye if euer you will haue me to guide you then graunte me some sléepe and then the Stomacke most dolefully sayde if euer you will haue me to féede and nourish your bodie get me some meate Then my Eyes said of conscience it is nowe time to sléepe for it is almoste midnighte then my Stomacke aunswered midnighte is not to late for him to Suippe that hath neither eate nor drunke of thrée or foure dayes And thus I was so troubled with these two earnest suters that I coulde not well tell to whom it was beste to yéelde but weying with my selfe the greate daunger I was in for want of foode I fully consented to my Stomacke and thoughe it was verye darke whereby my eyes coulde doe me no greate pleasure yet God did presentlie helpe me to whom I praied to succour me for immediatelie my foote did happen into a hoale wherein I founde yong Rabbets whiche I prepared as wel as I could and so I played the Cooke and roasted them for my Supper Omen But I pray you how did you for fire to rost thē withall Siuqila Truely fire was more easie to get than meate and drinke was more easie to gette than fire but breade to eate my Supper withal was the hardest to come by of all for it was impossible to haue anye in the Wildernesse vnlesse GOD hadde sente it from heauen as he rayned Manna for the children of Israel So that I was faine to eate my Supper without breade and yet I thought I neuer fared better in all my life Omen Yea but if you had had breade you woulde not haue liked your chéere the worse Siuqila No that is true but I had suche a pleasaunt sauce to my Supper that I neuer tarryed for breade nor yet scantlie remembred it Omen Was your sauce so dainetie and pleasaunt Siuqila Nay it was more pleasant than daintie for I seldom eate any meate without that sauce especially since I came out of my owne Countrey Omen Maye I bée so bolde to learne of you what sauce it was Siuqila Forsoothe the name of the sauce is called hunger a great deale better than Uinegar whiche made euery byt of my breadlesse supper more pleasant vnto me then the most costlye and delicate bankets with all their sumptuous sauces are to any Prince on the earth Omen