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5                   task imposed upon hur; sometime bur thought to fly from the presence of                   the bishop and hur father, and then contradicted that thought with this re- solution, and if hur could not do as                   well as hur should, that hur would do                    as well as hur could. So the day being come, Sheffery lay somewhat long in                   bed, and seemed to have small stomach to his new concern; which hur father seeing gave hur a call, telling hur the saint’s bell rung in. Oh! father, hur said, l am in a brown study; look father, upon the top of Mr Quibus’s house, and behold a cow turd that lies there, and I have been studying how it might be, whether the top of the house came down to the cow, or                   whether the cow went up to the top of the house! Oh, fye son, this is idle discourse, come, make haste, for it dravs near ten o’clock, they bishop and people begin to think you long. Well, father, I have but a short sermon to make; but it is such a tickler as has not been preached at your church since you came to the parish. Weil, son, 1 shall leave that to your judgement. Shef- fery no sooner enters the church, but he