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Rh and when they came thither, they were making a reckoning for the fidler, and every one gave what he lifted. Oh, quoth one of them, if you want money to make up the reckoning, here is one that can ſhite three ſhillings in nine-pences. If he can, quoth he gaeſts, let him bring them hither in his mouth, for I fear they are of ſo ſoft a metal, that they will melt in ſpite of his teeth. So after they had danced a while, a fart was let; whereupon ſays one, this fart was full charged, for it yielded a large vent; meaning his ſhirt.

TALE III.

DOWN in the weſt country a certain conceited fellow had a great noſe; ſo a country-man by him with a ſack of corn, joſtled him, ſaying, your noſe ſtands in my way; whereupon the other fellow with the great noſe, took his noſe in his hand, and held it to the other ſide, ſaying, A pox on thee, go and be hanged.

TALE IV.

ONCE there was a company of gypſies that came to a country fellow on the highway, and would needs tell him his fortune: amongſt other things, they bad him aſſure himſelf his worſt misfortunes were paſt, and that he would not be troubled with croſſes as he had been: ſo coming home, and