Thus menewhyle the pylgryms ly, And have theyr bowls fast theym by, And cry after hot malvesy, "Thow helpe for to restore." And some wold have a saltyd tost, For they myght ete neyther sode ne rost; A man myght soon pay for theyr cost, As for one day or twayne. Some layde theyr bookys on theyr knee, And read so long they myght nat see, "Allas! myne head woll cleve in three!" Thus seyth another certayne. Then commeth owre owner lyke a lorde, And speketh many a royall worde, And dresseth hym to the hygh borde, To see all things be well Anone he calleth a carpentere And biddeth hym bryng his gere, To make cabans here and there With many a fabyl cell. A sak of straw were there ryght good, For some must lyg them in theyr hood; I had as lefe be in the wood, Without mete or drynk, For when that we shall go to bedde, The pump was nygh our bedde hede, A man were as good to be dede, As smell thereof the stynk. [13] Troubles. [14] Bristol. CONCERNING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS (1445). =Source.=--_Statutes of the Realm_, 23 Henry VI., c. 14. _The statute recites 1 Henry V. c. 1 (see p. 13), and 8 Henry VI. c. 7 (see p. 35), then proceeds_: ... By force of which statutes elections of knights to come to Parliament sometimes have been duly made and lawfully returned until now of late that divers sheriffs, for their singular avail and lucre, have not made due elections of knights, nor in convenient time, nor good men and true returned, and sometime no return of the knights, citizens and burgesses lawfully chosen to come to the Parliaments; but such knights, citizens, and burgesses have been returned which were never duly chosen, and other citizens and burgesses than those which by the mayors and bailiffs were to the said sheriffs returned; and sometimes the sheriffs have not returned the writs which they had to make elections of knights to come to the Parliaments, but the said writs have imbesiled, and moreover made no precept to the mayor and bailiffs, or to the bailiffs or bailiff, where no mayor is, of cities and boroughs, for the elections of citizens and burgesses to come to the Parliaments, by colour of these words contained in the same writs--"_Quod in pleno comitatu tuo eligi facias pro comitatu tuo duos milites, et pro qualibet civitate in comitatu tuo duos cives et pro quolibet burgo in comitatu tuo duos burgenses_;" and also because sufficient penalty and convenient remedy for the party in such case grieved is not ordained in the said statutes against the sheriffs, mayors, and bailiffs, which do contrary to the form of the said statutes: The King considering the premises hath ordained by Authority aforesaid, that the said statutes shall be duly kept in all points: and moreover that every sheriff, after the delivery of any such writs to him made, shall make and deliver without fraud a sufficient