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4 two heads to strive for that you have not. Now which was the wisest of these three, I leave you to judge.

TALE II.

THERE was a man of Gotham that rode to the market with two bushels of wheat, and lest his horse should be damaged by carrying too great a bur- den, he was determined to carry the corn himself, upon his own neck, and still kept riding upon his horse till he arrived at the end of his journey. Now I will leave you to judge which was the wisest, his horse or himself.

TALE III.

On a time the men of Gotham fain would have pinn'd in the cuckoo, that she might sing all the year; and in the midst of the town they had a hedge made round in compass, and got a cuckoo and put her into it, and said, Sing here, and thou shalt lack neither meat nor drink all the year. The cuc- koo, when she perceived herself encom-