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13 the matter. When he came to the last, he paid him well, saying, here is the twelfth man; God's blessings on thy heart, said they, for finding our broth- er.

TALE XI.

A MAN of Gotham riding along the highway, saw a cheese, so drew his sword and pricked it with the point, in order to pick it up. Another man came by, alighted, and picked it up, and rode away with it. The man of Gotham rides back to Nottingham to buy a long sword to pick up the cheese, and return- ing to the place where it did lie, he pulled out his sword, pricking the ground, and said, If I had had but this sword I should have had the cheese myself, but now another has got it.

TALE XII.

A MAN in Gotham, that did not love his wife, and she having fair hair, her husband said divers times he would cur