e, which euery childe
Shall haue
throughout
the kingdome, that can read, 50
And learne to picke his teeth by.
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
e) but-- 40
I ?hew, how much the Subiect is abus'd,
Fir?t, in that one commodity? then what di?ea?es,
And putrefactions in the gummes are bred,
By tho?e are made of adultrate, and fal?e wood?
My plot, for reformation of the?e, followes. 45
To haue all Tooth-picks, brought vnto an _office_,
There ?eal'd; and ?uch as counterfait 'hem, mulcted.
And la?t, for venting 'hem to haue a booke
Printed, to teach their v?
e, which euery childe
Shall haue
throughout
the kingdome, that can read, 50
And learne to picke his teeth by.
Which beginning
Earely to practice, with ?ome other rules,
Of neuer ?leeping with the mouth open, chawing
Some graines of _ma?ticke_, will pre?erue the breath
Pure, and ?o free from taynt--ha' what is't? ?ai?t thou?
Traines _his man whi?pers him_.
TAY. Good faith, it ?ounds a very pretty _Bus'ne??
