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 12 THE HISTORY mer and his harveſt folks were fitting under a hedge at dinner.- Much good may it do you, ſaid Lawrence, will you give a young traveller a drop of your drink, and a morſel of your meat ?-No, ſaid the farmer, I would ſooner ſend your to the whipping-poſt, a puniſhment provided for ſuch vaga- bonds as you. ---Sayeſtt thou ſo, ſaid Lawrence, if I am not ſoon even with you, then let my name never more be called Lawrence, ſo putting on his ring, and looking at them, the farmer and all his folks fell faſt aſleep with their dinner before them, and the vict- uals in their mouths. Lawrence then filled his belly, and left them all ſno- ring. He was hardly got out of the field, before it fell a raining, and ſo continued the remaining part of that day and night, and even till the next morning ; at which time he returned to the field, and found them all aſleep as he had left them, and alſo like drowned rats. Then he wrote the fol- lowing ſhort verſe, broke the charm, and made his eſcape: You threatened Lawrence but of late, Therefore he brought on you this fate.