[1335] Flecknoe's Diarium (1656), 83, contains the following, quoted also by Burn (op. cit., 163), Jeaffreson (op. cit., II, 74, 75), and Friedberg (op. cit., 329):
"On the Justice of Peace's Making Marriages And the Crying Them in the Marcket.
1
Now just as 'twas in Saturn's Reign
The Golden Age is returned again
And Astrea again from heaven is come
When all the Earth by Justice is done.
2
Amongst the rest, we have cause to be glad
Now Marriages are in marckets made
Since Justice we hope will take order there
We may not be cousened no more in our ware
3 and 4
[Indecent stanzas.]
5
So all incommodities would be prevented
And every one would hold them contented,
And all debates in Marriage would cease
When things were done by Justice of Peace.