[67.]Mittitur in Disco, mihi Piscis ab Archiepisco
Po non ponetur, quia potum non mihi detur.
Englished thus.
There was in a dish, sent me a fish, from an Arch bish
Hop I will not put heere, because hee sent me noe beere.
NEWES FROM MORE-LANE.
or
A mad, knavish, and uncivil Frolick of a Tapster dwelling there, who buying a fat Coult for Eighteen pence, the Mare being dead and he not knowing how to bring the Coult up by hand, killed it, and had it baked in a Pastie, and invited many of his Neighbours to the Feast and telling of them what it was: the Conceit thereof made them all Sick, as by the following ditty you shall hear.
The Tapster fil'd the Cup up to the brim,