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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

hundred pounds thicke and his Creditors taking the opportunity of his fortunes would beare with him no longer but lay out to arrest and every way to vexe him old Lime underhand would furnish the young Gentleman with money to satisfie them all but before take a Morgage of all his land happily might bee worth an hundred or sixscore pounds per Annum which hee being unable to redeeme at the appointed day taking up a second summe sells it all unto him out right then calls his Creditors together and maketh him and them friends and undertaking the debt himselfe hee there tenders them downe the one halfe of their money the rest he paies by parcell and petty sums at his leasure Sometimes hee is trusted with money gathered in the Country for charitable uses as Building or repairing of Bridges in regard of the great credit hee hath in the Country and his acquaintance with the better sort reparation of Sea-banks High wayes and the like but he keepes it close till extremity and the feare of a Pursevant wrings it out of his fist But Meum and Tuum not knowing any way in the world to come by money in case Master Lime should be from home and the humour take him to lend them none considering he had beene so much beholding unto them or their kindred Meum as I said began to practise in the Towne taking upon him to cure all Aches Tumours Wounds Dislocations Distemperatures and in generall all manner of Diseases by stroking with the hand and uttering certaine words by way of a charme Tuum tooke upon him to bee his man and was to make good whatsoever hee spake of himselfe and his depth of skill in that manner of cure Beside Meum had in a readinesse a Catalogue and a counterfeit Testimoniall of Lords Ladyes Gentlewomen and Merchants Wives Mayds and of all sorts whom hee had cured after that way some of Dropsies the Chollicke Agues and the like Tuum was to affirme he was the seventh son of a seventh son but this one thing troubled Meum much that was if any patient should demand of him the name and quality of his disease and what were the Symptomes of the same hee could not tell wherefore he held it the best course of professing to cure all at once neither durst hee goe any Empyricall way to worke in giving this or that to his Patient for he had no more skill in a Drug then my Dog knowing no more what to give then they knew what to take and stroking was a thing of neither labour or cost which a little Loveret or the veriest Asse in England might doe yet to let the world know hee was not ignorant in the knowledge of Simples by the way he would dig up some rootes with his knife no matter what which cut in peeces and cleane scrap'd he would put into his handkercher these dried by the fire and beaten to powder he would give alike to all yea those that were most dangerously sicke either in Posset-ale or the pap of an Aple and if any such recovered by the strength and benefit of Nature as some doe then as he would often say his fame would fly farre and his name bee made knowne to all the Countrie The rootes he caried commonly about him were called Morsus Diaboli the devils bit which groweth in Corne fields and Meadowes the Fenne Parsnep which is sweet and hath the taste of our common Parsnep but present poyson as one Hamon Rainard in the Fenne prooved for bringing home many caused them to bee boyled and buttered but in the space of the burning of a Candle his Wife Children and himselfe died sometime hee would venture upon Sol●●am or nightshade one Dram whereof is able to kill a Cariers Horse Such a Doctor I remember I my selfe met withall at Vtrecht in the Low-countries who commonly was called Docter Iohn an English or a Welch man I known well whether this Doctor for so the people called every Mountebanke was much sought unto and was had in great admiration for his judgement in so much he could not eate or drinke in quiet for patients flocking unto him Scholler he was none for he could hardly read or write his owne name I having beene one day at dinner with that noble Gentleman the Grave or Earle of Culenberge by chance I there in a Garden met with Doctor Iohn having beene formerlie acquainted with him and demanded of him whence he had those rare drugs whereby he wrought such wonders in his profession Iohn having well tasted of the Earles wine as in vino veritas confesseth freelie unto me hee had nothing from either Indies Citie Druggist or Apothecarie saving some herbes and rootes which hee gathered in the Spring under a great quick-set hedge on my left hand in the way to Vtrecht which was three miles off and these were commonly the rootes of young Bri●rs Brionie Daisies Dandelion Crow-feete and the like which dried upon a Tilestone or Slate hee also as Meum did beate to powder and gave his Patients to drinke in posset drinke white wine and the like but if they were taken with pestilent or continuall burning Fevers then hee gave them the said powder in Canary-sack Anise-seed Worm-wood water or the like Meum being furnished as you have heard now verily beleeved that he was a good Physitian indeed and now having a mind as the Proverbe is to see the Towne served and to provide for a good lodging as well during the time of the Faire as after at the corner of a Lane they met with an old Woman carying a Pitcher of Buttermilke in one hand the other held up her apron wherein was a Cat blind folded of her they enquired of an honest Alehouse or private house where they might hire a couple of Chambers shee told them in a lane on their right hand was a very good and a quiet house at the signe of the two Beares and the Bee-hive herein they entred and found entertainement and having caused their apportements to bee laid up away they goe to Master Lime's house knocking at the doore out comes a spruce and a dapper youth surrounded at the knees with points russet Bootes and Spurres with a penne in his eare he asking our errand we told him wee came to speake with Master Lime and wee suppose you are his Clarke I am indeed and my name is Twig quoth he will you be pleased to enter my Master is not very busie in they came and found Master Lime in an upper Chamber sitting by a good fierin a Wickar Chaire with three or foure night Caps and an old greasie Hat on his head one foote upon the Tonges in the Chimney-corner and the other on a little buffet stoole upon a Cushion his legge many times bound about with a rouler of red cloth my friends quoth he you are welcome have you any Law businesse Sir quoth Meum you have heard of us heretofore though you never saw us till now our

what contention and strife had lately beene kindled in his Parish through the meanes of Meum and Tuum of whom he had notice and how that they lived in his Parish he resolved by all meanes to rid the Towne of them They on the other side seeing now all things tending to peace and quietnesse and little left to set them on worke for as Eeles in mud Beetles in dung and Swine in the mire they delighted in nothing but base brabbles quarrels and suits in law and well knowing they in that Country had gained experience sufficient pour passer par tout and to set a a whole Country together by the eares they resolved forthwith to travell towards London and to goe by Cambridge forward they goe and the first night they take up their Lodging in an Inne in that ancient Towne called of the Romans Sitomagum here they stayed foure or five daies one lying at the one end of the Towne and the other at the other but in this little space of their staie they made worke a twelve Moneth after for all the Lawiers within tenne miles of that place for they set the Lords of two neighbouring Townes at odds yea two Swinheards of the same Townes who beate one another fearefully about their Swine trespassing one upon anothers Common and another accident happened whiles they were in that Towne A certaine Bailife did use to impound and take waifes and straies of all manner of Cattell as fell within that Lordship on a time there were taken up as straies two Milch Kine and an Oxe the Bailife to cheat the owner if at any time he came to enquire for Beasts had this tricke he would provide a great Rie loafe taken hot out of the Oven and put it upon the Beasts hornes whereby he would bend them which way hee listed if they grew narrow hee would make them wider if they declined backward with his hot loafe hee would bend them forward so that when the owner came to challenge his Cattell he knew them not for hee would say surely the brand and the eare-marke is mine but my Cow or Oxes hornes stood another way this beasts hornes hang in his forehead mine stood upright but surely it is as like my Cow as ever I saw so the honest man that owned them durst not challenge them but they fell as a cheate to the Lord rather to the Bailiefe This tricke being discovered to Meum and Tuum by some who had practised the like Meum growing acquainted with the owner importuned him to sue the Bailife Tuum perswaded the Bailife to sue the owner for giving out threatning words against him and laying claime to that which hee could not justifie for his but the Bailife being an old and a constant Guest to the Hostesse where Meum lay who was a very handsome Lasse She undertooke they should be all friends and shake hands and upon that condition She vowed to bestow a good peece of Beefe a dish of Egges and a Gallon of nappy Ale for a breakefast Meum and Tuum got nothing hereby for the world was now growne wise and honest neighbours ended their strife and differences among themselves so that although they had gotten skill sufficient in these parts yet they had gained little for their maintenance and livelihood Hereupon they resolved to visite the famous Vniversity of Cambridge and to see if they could meete with any of Wrangle at Sturbridge Faire for it was now after Bartholomew-tide and going on their way they come to a Towne called QVI where they went into an honest Alehouse to drinke for the weather was yet warme here they found the Clerke of the Parish a Suffolke Cheesemonger and a Baker of Chesteron exceedingly joviall and merry for they had spent eleven Grotes in sheare Ale onely beside Cheese and Bread which the Suffolke man and the Baker had of their owne a reckoning being called for the Baker who had long served that house with bread denyed that it came to so much for quoth he Hostesse for every Pot that came in I unbuttoned a button so that here are not so many as you say we have had Pots but the truth is the Baker being halfe foxed had not so many buttons at his Doublet as Pots were broughtin but the Hostesse would have her reckoning Meum and Tuum hearing this difference betweene the Hostesse and Baker began to devise how they might interpose themselves to come cleare off for what they had called for in the house and get somwhat more to beare charges Meum while the Baker stepped out of Dores came and whispered him in the eare and told him that he was an Informer lately come from Burie and was going by Cambridge towards London and that if hee would keepe his counsell he would teach him how to bee even with her for the smalenesse of her Pots being under the allowance of the Statute so that he might see them filled and so take his oath safely the Baker calls in for halfe a dozen more and drinkes an Health to Meum Meum againe to the Parish Clerke he to the Cheesemonger so the Baker well pleased fetcheth from his basket two Manchets and gets Cheese of the Suffolke-man and bids Meum fall to and welcome The Hostesse not suspecting any judgling or Treason against her at all sits quietly talking in the Kitchin with Tuum who having overheard those ill words the Baker gave her and his misreckoning calls her on the one side and tells her in private that he was a Promotour belonging to the Exchequer and by his oath and office hee could not chuse but informe against the smalnesse of his Bread wanting in every penny Loafe two Ounces for they borrowed Scales and sealed Weights to weigh it at a Chandlers in the Town the Hostesse finding her selfe to have been cheated for many yeares together willingly consented to bee revenged upon the Baker Tuum takes the day and yeare in his Table Bookes faithfully promising the Hostesse forthwith to informe and that for his part hee would freely bestow his part of the Fine upon her as pitying her losse for so long a time The Hostesse with a low courtsie thanks him heartily hereupon Tuum called to pay truly not a penny if it were twise as much quoth the Hostesse with that she fetched forth a quarter of a rosted Pigge and a dish of new gathered Damsins with a Mazer of good Ale wherin shee powred a little cup of Anise-seede water and dranke to Tuum desiring him to know her house another time he promised he would So calling his Brother Meum from the Bakers company to set forward toward Cambridge the Clerk of QVI desired Tuum to stay but a little and knocking upon the Table with the Church-dore Key called for a Cap of Cambridge beere and dranke to Tuum craving his name hee told him I am his Brother quoth Meum in good time quoth the Clerke came you not out of the Land of Pronounes and