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 WISE MEN OF GOTHAM. 9 neck, ſaying. You muſt firſt go to Lough borough, and then to Leiceſter, and at Newark is our landlord ; then commend us unto him, and there is his due The hare, as ſoon as he got 'out of their hands, ran quite a contra- ry way. Some ſaid, thou muſt firſt go to Lough borough; others ſaid, let the hare alone, for he can tell a nearer way than the beſt of us; let him go. TALE IX. A Man of Gotham that went mow- ing in the meadow found a large graſshopper; he immediately threw down his ſeythe, and ran home to his neighbours, and ſaid, That the devil was there in the field, and was ſhop- ping among the graſs. Then was e- very man ready, with their clubs and faves, halberts and other weapons, to kill the graſshopper. When they came almoſt to the place where the graſs- hopper was, said one to the other, let every one croſs himſelf from the devil, for we will not meddie with him, ſo they returned again, and ſaid, we were bleſt this day that we went no far- ther. O ye cowards, ſaid he, that left his ſcythe in the meadow, help me to