80 ADVANCE OF PRICES 



CHAP. XIX. 



cause but the true one, which in his warmth 

 against his neighbours he had totally overlooked, 

 or was unacquainted with. 



In uttering his indignation at the advance of 

 prices, he says, " The phisition, if the poore man be 

 " diseased, he can have no help without to much ; 

 " and of the lawyer the poore man can get no coun- 

 " sell, expedition, nor helpein this matter, except 

 " he give him to much. At merchants' handes, no 

 " kynde of ware can be had except we give for it to 

 " much. You landlordes, you rentraisers, I may 

 " say you step-lordes, you unnatural lordes, you 

 " have for your possessions yearly to much. For 

 " that here before went for twenty or forty pound 

 " (which is an honest portion to be had gratis in 

 " one lordship of another man's sweat and labour), 

 " now is it let for fifty or one hundred pound by 

 " yeare. Of this to much commeth the monsterous 

 " and portentous dearthe made by man, notwith- 

 " standing God doeth send us plentifully the fruites 

 " of the earth, mercifully contrary unto our desertes. 

 " Notwithstanding, to much, which these rich men 

 " have, causeth such dearth, that poor men (which 

 " live of their labour) cannot, with the sweat of their 

 " face, have a living, all kind of victuals is so deare, 

 " pigges, geese, capons, chickens, egges, &c. These 

 " things with others are so unreasonably enhansed, 

 " and I thinke, verily, that if it thus continue, we 

 " shall at length be constrained to pay for a pigge 

 66 a pound." 



A sermon before a king must be necessarily 



