An almond for a parrat, or Cutbert Curry-knaues almes Fit for the knaue Martin, and the rest of those impudent beggers, that can not be content to stay their stomakes with a benefice, but they will needes breake their fastes with our bishops. Risum sum plenus. Therefore beware (gentle reader) you catch not the hicket with laughing.

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An almond for a parrat, or Cutbert Curry-knaues almes Fit for the knaue Martin, and the rest of those impudent beggers, that can not be content to stay their stomakes with a benefice, but they will needes breake their fastes with our bishops. Risum sum plenus. Therefore beware (gentle reader) you catch not the hicket with laughing.
Author
Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.
Publication
Imprinted at a place, not farre from a place [i.e. London?] :: By the assignes of Signior Some-body [i.e. Eliot's Court Press?], and are to be sold at his shoppe in Trouble-knaue Stréet, at the signe of the Standish,
[1589?]
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Marprelate controversy -- Early works to 1800.
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"An almond for a parrat, or Cutbert Curry-knaues almes Fit for the knaue Martin, and the rest of those impudent beggers, that can not be content to stay their stomakes with a benefice, but they will needes breake their fastes with our bishops. Risum sum plenus. Therefore beware (gentle reader) you catch not the hicket with laughing." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18918.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.

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