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 9 A country fellow was ſupoenæd for a wit- neſs upon a trial on an action of delama- tion: he being ſworn, the judge bade him repeat the very fame words he had heard Spoken The fellow was loath to ſpeak. and hummed and hawed for a good ſpace; but being urged by the Judge. he at laiſt ſpoke. My Lord, ſaid he, you are a cu- ckold. The Judge ſeeing ail the people begin to laugh at him, called to him, and bid him ſpeak to the Jury, there were twelve of them. A gentleman ſpeaking of Peggy Yate the famous courtezan who had always an a- bundance of nne cloaths, ſaid ſhe was like a ſquirrel, for the was always covering her back with her tail. A gentleman laid one day at table, that he could not endure a breaſt of mutton You ſaid to the other day, ſaid another, of a breaſt of veal. Very true anſwered the firſt, I do not love the breaſt of any thing but that of a woman, and that goes againſt my ſtomach, A woman was growing big with child, who had two gallants, one of them with a wooden leg; the queſtion was put, which of the two ſhould father the child,