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Q. Who are the two greatest thieves in Great Britain?

A. Tea and Tobacco, for they pick the pockets of the whole nation.

Q. What is the difference between Ale-drapers, and Linen drapers?

A. Only this, the one cheats you with froth, and the other with cloth.

Q. If Extortioners cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven, where will Usur- ers, Tallymen, and Pawn-brokers go.

A. The same road with Extortioners.

Q. What is the consequence of im- moderate gaming?

A. By cards and dice, a man is                      ruin'd in a trice; for gaming and whor- ing often hang together.

Q. What employments are likest to                      one another? A. Soldiers and Butchers are bloody near relations, for the both live by                      slaughtering and killing.

Q. What are the two hardest things to be found, and yet they are both good in their kind?

A. Good women, & good small beer.

Q. Who is the likest to a Boatman?

A. An hypocrite, who always looks one way and rows another, in all his transactions.