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" There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer... "
Germania: Vierteljahrsschrift für deutsche alterthumskunde... - Page 418
edited by - 1856
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Farm Relief Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry - Agriculture - 1929 - 858 pages
...food was never so cheap and plentiful; and the prediction of Jack Cade has been literally fulfilled: "There shall be, in England, seven half -penny loaves sold for a penny." The miscalculation of Malthus for the first hundred years is almost as great as that of the religious enthusiasts...
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A Survey of Socialism, Analytical, Historical, and Critical, Volume 25

Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - Socialism - 1929 - 500 pages
...demagogue of every age. "When I am king," cries the agitator, " there shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. All the realm shall be in common. . . . There shall...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 99

English periodicals - 1926 - 964 pages
...commonly inspires revolutions. Says Jack Cade to his followers : There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny ; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer ; all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside...
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Shakespeare's Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainment and the ...

Frangois Laroque - Drama - 1993 - 444 pages
...will introduce a wonderful system of prices and measures: There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. (iv. ii, 67-9) And while he is about it, he goes on...
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Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England

Richard Helgerson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 390 pages
...minds," and unbridled festivity proclaims a reign of plenty: "There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it a felony to drink small beer" (4.2.65-68). And, of course, carnival is severely...
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Shakespeare at Work

John Jones - Drama - 1999 - 310 pages
...calculated bouleversement of his millennial picture in which There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. (First Part of the Contention (2 Henry V/), 4. z. 67-9)...
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Henry VI, Part 2

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 196 pages
...brave, then, for your captain is brave and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. Shakespeare's portrait of the revolutionary as absurdist...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 44

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 282 pages
...which is also part of a long-running political dialogue: 'There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. All the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

W. H. Auden - Drama - 2002 - 428 pages
...which it presents. [Love's Labour's Lost, V.ii.517-19] (16) There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. [2 Henry VI, IV.ii.70-74] (17) Let us take any man's...
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare's times, texts, and ..., Volume 1

Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pages
...which is also part of a long-running political dialogue: 'There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny, the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops, and I will make it felony to drink small beer. All the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall...
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