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Wise Men of Gotham.5 bush, and some into another. How ever, he charged them to meet him in the market-place. The man went to the market to meet with the cheeses, and stayed till the market was almost over; then went and enquired at his neighbours, if they saw his cheeses come to the market? Why, who should bring them? said one. Marry, themselves, said the fellow, they knew the way very well. A vengeance on them, they ran so fast, I was afraid they would run beyond the market; I am persuaded they are by this time almost as far as York. So he immediately rode to York, but was very much disappointed. And to add to it, he never found nor heard of one of his cheeses.

TALE V.

A Man of Gotham bought at Nottingham market a trevot, or barn-iron; and going home with it, his shoulders grew weary with the carriage. He set it down, and seeing it had three feet, said, Whoreson, thou hast three feet and I but two, thou shalt bear me home, if thou wilt; so set himself down upon it, and said to it, Bear me as long as I have done thee, for if thou dost not,