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(23) ng a tutoring it, I protest I could have a jackdaw to have spoke better in two. It said T. Oh, villain! says , hadst thou call’d me then, all England been walled with brass, to my immortal. Then continued Miles, about half an after, it said T Oh,wretch! my anger burns against thee; had you called me then, it might have done what. Then, said he, it said, T, so fell down with the horrid noise that you and made me, I’m sure, befoul breeches; and since here’s so much to do  time, I think it’s time for me to retire  clean myself. Well villain! says Bacon, hast lost all our cost and pains by thy  negligence. Why, said Miles, I thought would not have stopped when it once, but would have gone on and told me  pleasant story or have commanded me  have called you, and I should have done it,  I see the devil is a cunning sophister  all hell would not allow him tinkers  brass enough to do the work and  has put this trick upon us to get off  his promise. How, slave! said the Friar, art thou at buffoonry, now thou hast me this great injury? Sirrah! because think the head spake not enough to  you to call us, you shall speak less in o months space, and with that, by