To hold the Assize of a pot of good ale.
And though there lie Writs from the Courts Paramount,
To stay the proceedings of Courts Paravaile;
Law favours it so, you may come, you may go,
There lies no Prohibition to a pot of good ale.
They talk much of State, both early and late,
But if Gascoign and Spain their Wine should but faile,
No remedy then, with us Englishmen,
But the State it must stand by a pot of good ale.
And they that sit by it are good men and quiet,