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 22 The Comical Sayings tom. I and did he make you pay all theſe thin teag. Ay, ay, pay and better pay: he took before his captain, who made me pay all was in book, Arra, Dir captain, ſaid I, you are a comid fort of a fellow now, you might as well make pay for my coffin before I be dead as to pay con doctor before I be ſick, to which the anſwered in paſſion, ſirra, ſaid he I have ſeen many a better i buried without a coffin, ſir, ſaid I, then I'll hav coffin, die when I will, if there be as much wa in ajl the world, or ) ſhall not be buried at all, t. he call'd for the ſerjeant, ſaying you ſir, go buy that man's coffin, and put it in the ſtore, he die, and ſtop ſixpence a week off his pay for No, no, ſir, ſaid I, I'll rather die witbc: a cof and ſeek none when I'm dead, but if you be clipping another ſixpence off my poor pay, ked all to yourſelf and I'll ſwear all your oaths of ag ment we had back again, and then ſeek fold where you will tom. O.then, pady, how did you end the mat teag. Arra, dear ſhoy, by the mights of the patrick, and help of my brogs, I both endey and mended it, for the next night before the gave them leg-bail for my fidility, and then w about the country a fortune teller, dumb and as I was not. tom how old was you pady, when you was a dier laſt. teag. Arra, dear honey, I was three dozen als two, and it is only but two years ſince, fol only four years of three dozen, yet, and when fix dozen, more I'll be older than I am I'll war you. tom. O what pady, by your own account, yor three dozen of years old already. teag. O what for a big tool you are now tom,