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9                      be rough with them, doubting they intended to rob his shop, but they cried out, that they were poor Welshmen that thought no hurt, but desired three groats for a shilling. The gentleman finding them to be three poor ignorant fellows, asked them for their shilling; they immediately told him they had given it to hur poor aged father, point- ing to the jackanapes, The gentleman in great wrath cried out, You villains, do you think I'm the son of a jacka- napes. And threatening to set them by the heels; but discovering their simplicity, asked them what the Jack- anapes did with it? quoth they, he put it into that hole. So he supposed it                      might be, and gave them three groats, bidding them be gone, so away went Sheffery's countrymen to their places provide for them, but Sheffery had hur fortune to seek.