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18 you all agreed of the name? Gilbert, Humphray; and Christabel, said the same. The priest then said, Where- fore came you hither? They immedi- ately said the same. The priest being amazed, could not tell what to say, but whistled and said-Whey, and so did they. The priest being angry, said, Go home, you fools, go home. Then Gilbert; Humphrey, and Christabel, did the same. The priest then provided god-fathers and god-mothers himself.

TALE XVI.

A YOUNG man of Gotham went a wooing to a fair maid: his mother warn- ed him before-band, saying, whenever you look at her, cast a sheep's eye at her, and say, How dost thou my sweet Pigsnie? The fellow went to a butcher and bought seven or eight sheep eyes. And when this lusty wooer was at din- ner, he would look upon the fair wench, and cast in her face a sheep's 'eye, say- ing, How dost thou do, my sweet Pigs- nie? How I do, said the wench,