Would every Lawyer were served thus ! from troubling poore men they would cease: They'd either show them a good cause why, or else they'd let them live in peace. And thus I end my merry tale, which shewes the plain mans simplenesse, And the Kings great mercy in righting his wrongs, And the Lawyers fraud and wickednesse. 410 The Birth, Life, Death, Wil, THE and Epitaph of Jack Puffe Gentleman. HE Birth, Life, Death, Wil, and Epitaph of Jack Puffe Gentleman. London, Printed for T. P. 1642, 4to, four leaves, with a woodcut of Jack Puffe on the title-page. This satirical tract, which has been transcribed by the editor from a copy among the King's pamphlets in the British Museum, deserves attention on account of its peculiar character. Like The Treatyse of a Galaunt, it is an attempt to throw ridicule on the fops of the time. Jack Puffe is a type of what was by no means a small class during the reign of Charles I. |