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14The Merry Tales of the and brought a spiggot and fauset, saying, Pull thy finger out of the tap-hole, good cuckold. Beshrew your heart for your trouble, said he, make no such bargain with me again.

TALE XIV.

A man of Gotham took a young buzzard, and invited four or five gentlemen's servants to the eating of it; but the old 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 'tis 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 interim she pulled out the buzzard's feathers, and put in the goose's. Then the man taking the bag, went to the gentleman's servants, and said, Pray be not angry with me, you shall see I