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The LXXII. ADVERTISEMENT.
Many Carriers, who contrary to the Laws, brought great store of Beans into Parnassus, are taken Prisoners by the Scouts.
THis morning, being the twentieth of this present moneth, the Field-Scouts met with some Carriers, who brought store of beans into Pernassus, a sort of Pulse which was long since banished out of all Apollo's Dominions; for his Majesty having found in ma∣ny unfortunate former occasions, that many passionate Literati, that they might vent their mad passions which burn'd within their bosoms, whilst they made use of these beans in the Senat, have utterly undone themselves and their whole Families, to the end he might maintain peace and concord amongst his Vertuosi, did many years since forbid the sale of any such Pulse under pain of severe punishment; it having been used by divers instead of musket-bullets, only to blast the re∣putation of honest men. It was learn'd from the same Carriers, that this Inhibited. Merchandize was sent from ignorant and malignant Countries, to such perfidious Courtiers of this State, who study nothing else but how to scatter beans upon other mens stairs, only to make such simple people fall and break their necks, who firmly be∣lieve that no man can walk safely any where, but with the feet of up∣right meaning, and good conscience.
Whereupon Apollo did very much wonder to see, that through the malignity of the times, all Princes Courts are so pestered with these malignant spirits, as they study more how to discompose other mens affairs, then how to accommodate their own.