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 Soon after ſhe came to her huſband, and brought a piggot and fauſet, faying, 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.

A Man of Gotham took a young buzzard, and invited four or five gentlemen's ſervants to the eating of it; but his wife and two of her goſſips ate up the buzzard, and killed an old gooſe, and put it 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, it was a curious buzzard. A buzzard! ſaid they, why 'tis an old gooſe, and thou art but a knave to mock us; and, ſo in a 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 to fetch a block of wood, and while he did ſo ſhe pulled out all the buzzard's feathers, and put in the gooſe's. Then the man taking the bag, went to the gentlemen's ſervants, and ſaid, Pray be not angry with me, you ſhall feel had a