[26] "No longer deign to dine on the stale vegetables of yesterday."
[27] Penny-ale will not satisfy them.
[28] Hot-and-hotter.
[29] Highly paid.
[30] Bewail the time.
[31] Curseth.
[32] For making such laws.
FIRST STATUTE OF PROVISORS (1350).
Source.—Statute, 25 Edward III., Statute VI.
Cap. III.— ... That the free election of archbishops, bishops and of all other dignitaries and benefices elective in England, shall hold from henceforth in the manner as they were granted by the King's progenitors, and the ancestors of other lords founders of the said dignities and other benefices.