Lacks he meat, drinke,
or apparrell? (and nothing els he ought to be owner of) he must
procure them of the worst by free gift, and not make choice, for a
iust price, of the best. Well, though the rogue laugh you to scorne
at night, the alewife hath reason the next day to pray for you.
Surely we finde by experience, that this so hainous an enormitie may
be both easily and quickly reformed: for let the Constables execute
upon the rogues that last most beneficiall Act of Parliament, with
due seueritie for one weeke, and the terror thereof will free the
parish for a month: vse it a month, and you are acquited for the
whole yere. If the Constables persift in their remisnesse, let the
Iustices lay the penalty vpon them, and they will no longer hoodwinke
themselues at their neighbours faults. Let the neighbour be so
pinched by the purse, but once or twise, and he will become a
great deale the more sensible to season his charity with discretion
for a long time after.
Vpon the first statute, there was a house of correction erected
at Bodmin, to the great charge, but little benefit of the Countrey.
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