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De hier afgedrukte tekst bevat de ‘(...) lawes both of Carousi-kanikin, and of all Drink-allia (...).’, afkomstig uit de Mundus alter et idem (1609) van Joseph Hall.
Deze ‘lawes’ zijn belangwekkend, aangezien de meeste ervan overeenkomsten vertonen met de Wetten vande Suyp-stad (vs. 612-662). Deze parallellen zijn dermate treffend dat het bepaald niet uitgesloten lijkt, dat Pers zich door dit werk liet inspireren c.q. eraan ontleende.
Now gentle Reader will I present thee with the lawes both of Carousi-kanikin, and of all Drink-allia: read and if thou wilt not laugh, choose.
IT IS DECREED, AND AB-
solutely enacted, by the high and migh-
ty Duke of Tenter-belly, and the
whole States both of Eat-
allia and Drink-
allia.
| 1. | That all promises, othes, bills, bonds, indentures or any other conueyances whatsoever, made, or caused to bee made in the after-noone, bee utterly voide and of none effect. |
| 2. | That no man of what state or degree soever hee bee, have his cuppes private unto himselfe, upon paine of drinking two daies, after in a fire-shovell? |
| 3. | That if any one cast away any snuff, but meere froath, he be forthwith enioyned to goe downe upon his knes and lick up the otherwise perrishing liquor. |
| 4. | That every one pledge his challenger in the same cup, and on the same fashion, upon paine of beeing debarred from drinke two daies after. |
| 5. | That the Pottes in banquets bee either alwaies full, or empty: the waiter that presents a pot halfe filled, and the person that takes it shalbe both guiltie of breach of goodfellowship. |
| 6. | That hee that beeing sober shall strike him that is drunk, be immediate disabled for ever giving testimony in any cause whatsoever: but the drunken man striking the sober shalbe acquitted. |
| 7. | That he that being sober shall robbe him that is drunke, bee forbidden wine for ever: and if he kill him, he shalbe put to death by thirst. |
| 8. | That hee that shall speake evill of the Duke of Tenter-belly, as in saying, God send him a dry health, or so, bee held guilty of high treason. |
| 9. | That hee whome either nature or sicknesse hath made abstinent; bee banished the land. |
| 10. | That hee that goeth from any publique meeting, without staggering, bee accompted a malefactor in the highest degree. |
| 11. | That all that stay three daies in the Cittie, doe offer sacrifice unto Bacchus. |
| 12. | That the calling of a Citizen theefe or whore-maister, beare no action, that to call him abstayner, shalbe lyable to the lawe. |
| 13. | That hee that mixeth water with his wine, bee sent to suppe amongst the dogs. |
| 14. | That hee that sweareth by Bacchus, and keepeth not his word, bee utterly disabled from making any will, and bearing any witnesse. |
| 15. | That hee that striketh with a pot, and either spilleth the wine, or breaketh the pot, bee enioyned to touch neither pot nor wine for foure and twenty houres after. |
Ouer the portall of the hall were these verses written.
The house of youthfull mirth, and lusty cheere:
Peace, wine, sport, rest, have al their mansions here.
Subscribed
STILLYARD.
Bron: Hall (1969) p. 77-79
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