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128 they keep us Waking, and Hinder our Repoe. The Flea thought it hard to uffer Death for an Importunity: But to a Man that knows how to Value his Time and his Quiet, One Importunity upon the Neck of Another, is the Killing of a Man Alive, and the very Wort of Deaths.

Here was a Fellow, that upon a Flea-Biting call'd out to Hercules for Help. The Flea gets away, and the Man Expotulates upon the Matter. Well! Hercules; (ays he) You that would not take My Part againt a Sorry Flea, will never tand by me in a Time of Need, againt a more Powerful Enemy.

T was now Cuckow-Time, and a Certain Middle-Ag'd Man, that was Half-Gray, Half-Brown, took a fancy to Marry Two Wives, of an Age One under Another, and Happy was the Woman that could pleae him Bet. They took Mighty Care of him to All manner of Purpoes, and till as they were Combing the Good Man's Head, they'd be Picking out here and there a