will suffer nobody to come at them, or their wives to be seen abroad,nec campos liceat lustrare patentes.

This he refused to do, saying, "I hold my patente for my service don, which noe newe or late comers can meritt or challenge."

but because it taught the furyous way To blasphemye and curses which have kyndled A desperatt fyer in thee to play and loose, So that although thou purchase letteres patente To begge in all the provynces of Fraunce, Pretendinge that thy state was lost by fyer, Yet thou wouldst dye a beggar.