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 OF TOM TRAM. 15 hawking pole, and a falconer's bag? which being tied to his fide, and having drank up the poor man's hot water, he came reeling home with an owl upon his fiſt, ſaying, it is gentleman-like to be betwixt hawk and buzzard; and he told the aquavitæ man, that he had ſent the trevot with three legs, to the next town to fill your bottles again.

CHAP. IX.

Of Tom Tram's wooing Cicily Summers, the neat Wench of the Weſt.

CICILY Summers, whoſe noſe was then as fair as the midnight ſun, which ſhined as bright as Baconthine, was beloved of young Tom Tram; and a ſad ſtory to tell, he grew not worth the bread he eat, through pining away for her love. Tom was loth to ſpeak but ſtill whiſtled; At laſt, when Cicily made no anſwer, he burſt out in thus: O Cicily Summers, if I Tom Tram, ſon of mother Winter, and thou Cicily Sum- mers, be joined together what a quarter ſhall we keep; as big as three half years; beſides, Cicily Summers, when thou ſcoldeſt, then Winter ſhall preſently cool thy heat; and when we walk on the ſtreet they'll ſay, yon- der goes Summer and Winter; and for children, we ſhall beget every yeara generation of Almanacks. So they went to the parſon and were married; but they fell out ſo ex- tremely, that ſhe ſcolded all the ſummer