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 A. Because he has many to wait on and call on him.

Q. How is swearing like a shabby coat?

A. Because it is a bad habit.

Q. How is a bad pen like a wicked and progate man?

A. Because it wants mending.

Q. Why is a church bell like a story that is funded about?

A. Because it is often toll'd.

Q. What is a man like that is in the midst of river and cannot swim?

A. He is like to be drowned.

Q. Why is a drawn tooth like a thing that is forgot?

A. Because it is out of one's head.

Q. Why is a book like a tree?

A. Because it is full of leaves.

Q. Why is a good sermon like a plump pudding?

A. Because there is reasons in it.

Q. How is a whorish woman like a charitable person?

A. Because she brings her husband to a piece bread.

Q. How is a lawyer like a contentious woman?

A. Because he breeds wrangling and jangling.