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 d you pleaſe the women, and do them no harm, farther than getting them with bearn?

The coachman cries, I’ll engage, never fear, Her I kiſs’d and hug’d her, and call’d her my dear, doubt not but the fifty pounds I have won, the girl is with child as ſure as a gun.

The footman ſaid I’ve done my endeavour, engage I have a daughter or a ſon; the ſteward ſaid, my game. I don't fear, gather’d above half a ſcore the laſt year.

The ſquire ſaid, this is very well known. then the time is come I will pay the turn unto each fifty pounds I will pay on the nail, it he’s to have nothing that doth fail.

And now we will leave the women to breed, and to the lord beyond ſea again proceed: having ſettled his matters he home did return, as the nine months were expir’d and gone.

Thoo’ the lady Was big in the waiſt, He kept it ſo private that none knew her cafe. that day her huſband came home to his dear, order’d a ſumptuous supper we hear.

a lady he took and kindly embrac’d, and ſaid my dear, you look big in the waiſt nothing but fat, my jewel, ſhe ſaid, would you have me be as ſlim as when l was a maid?

that before ſupper was part and o’er, made wry faces, beginning to roar,