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 7 often do you go to prayers now? Why an- ſwered the other, in caſe of a ſtorm, or the apprehenſion of any danger from an enemy Aye, ſaid the firſt, there is ſome ſenſe in that; but my maſter makes us go to pray- ers when there is no more occaſion for it, than for my leaping over board.

A certain lady at Whitehall, of great quality, but very little modeſty, having ſent for her linen-draper to bring her ſome Hole lands, as ſoon as the young fellow entered the room, O ſir, ſaid ſhe, I find you are the man for bufineſs, for you no ſooner look a lady in the face, but you have the yard in one hand, and is lifting up the linen with the other.

King Henry the Eighth deſigning to ſend a nobleman on an em baffy to Francis the Firſt, at a very dangerous juncture, he begged to be excuſed, ſaying, Such a threatening meſſage to ſo hot a Prince as Francis the Firſt, might go near to coſt him his head. Fear not, laid Old Harry. it the French King ſhould offer to take away your life, I will revenge it by ta- king off the heads of the Frenchmen now in my power. But of all theſe heads