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16 after she came to her husband, and brought a spiggot and a fauset, saying, Pull thy finger out of the tap-hole, good cuckold. Beshrew your heart for your trouble, said she, make no such bargain with me again.

TALE XIV.

A MAN of Gotham took a young buzzard, and invited four or five gen- tlemen's servants to the easing of it; but the wife killed an old goose, and she and two of her gossips ate up the buzzard, and the old goose was laid to the fire for the gentlemen's servants. So when they came the goose was set before them. What is this? said one of them; The goodman said, a curious buzzard. A buzzard! said they ; why, it is an old goose, and thou art a knave to mock us, and so in great anger departed home. The fellow was very sorry that he had affronted them, and took a bag and put the buzzard's feathers in it: but his wife desired him, before he went, to fetch a block of wood, and in the in-