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pleasing some one else, much or little, more than he needs or 
some stated measure, be it a whole measure, a half, a third, a 
quarter or whatever it may happen to be, as often as he does 
that, he shall inevitably be imprisoned for two days in the tower 
or in a closed prison on a fare of bread and water, or shall be 
fined for each day one-fourth of a gulden, which fine shall in 
no case he remitted. 
Whoever drinks himself full to imbecility shall be punished 
with five days imprisonment in the tower or a closed prison on 
a fare of bread and water, or fined the above mentioned sum, 
that is for each day a fourth of a gulden, and this fine shall be 
put, as said above, by our officers and magistrates, into the box 
or alms plate and given to the poor and needy. 
Should it also happen that one or several persons should be 
guilty more than once of the misdemeanors of blasphemy, car¬ 
ousing, and treating, and this be brought to notice, then the 
punishment shall for the first offense be inflicted once as said 
before, for the second it shall be doubled, and for the third, 
trebled, and should anyone persist, the Council will raise the 
penalty still further as it may see fit. 
Likewise every citizen and client under the jurisdiction of 
the Council, whether within or without the city, shall be held 
on his oath, by which he is bound to the Council,— as it is like¬ 
wise urged upon every person severally—to announce this ordi¬ 
nance of the Council to his children, dependents, man-servants, 
maid-servants, and domestics, whom he has now or may have in 
the future, and to urge upon them to behave accordingly. 
And whatever citizen and client under the jurisdiction of the 
Council does not comply with this, the Council will have pun¬ 
ished, through its agents and magistrates if they hear of it. 
And the Honorable Council most urgently asks, begs and 
orders citizens, subjects, clients and inhabitants of its city of 
Nuremberg, and territory, for the Glory of God, to report to the 
burgomaster in the city of Nuremberg or in the country to the 
administrators and magistrates subject to the Council, such 
vices as blasphemy, carousing and debauchery, which they have 
witnessed or become aware of in the city of Nuremberg or other 
