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The DIALOGUE, &c. IT is a certain old saying, that where women are conveen'd in crowds, there can be no silence; and some have said that it was a great bondage for them to hold their peace in the church; and where there is much talk by ignorant speakers, it is diverting for persons to hear them. Therefore, we have furnished the public with a collection of old wives noted sayings and wonders.

Two old wives, Maggy and Janet, at their rocks, began their crack as follows:

Jan. A dear Maggy, how auld will ye be now O it is lang since I ken'd ye.

Mag. Indeed Janet, that's what naebody kens for my parents had sac mony o us, they ne'er counted how auld ane o us was; they minded aye wha o us was born first, and wha was neist ane anither and that was a that eer we fought to ken about it but I hae mind o the mirk Muonday.

Jan. Hout tout woman, the mirk Muonday! mind since there was nae Muondays at a, and the Sabbath was nae come in fashion; there was a da they ca'd Sunday came anes o the week; we kene whan it came, for my father cow'd aye his bear when the bell rang, and every body ran to the kirk's had ony thing ado, gin it were to buy fast or ſhund for the chapmen cheils set up a their creims at the door, an the lasses gat keeing glasses, red snood needles, elshin irons, brown bread and black saep buy, sorby sweety wives things, and rattles for little anes; the men bought pints o ale, an gotten a whan o cheese to chow the time o drinking. There wa braw markets on Sunday the time o paepery, we had na ministers then, but priests, mess Jens, black friar & white friars monks, abbots and bishops; they had nae wives, yet the best o them wad a spoken bawe