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 home fools, go home. Then Gilbert, Humphry, and Chriſtibel, did the ſame. The Prieſt then provided godfathers any godmothers himſelf.

Here a man' may ſee, that children can do nothing without good inſtructions, and that they ſurely are not wiſe who diſregard them.

was a young Man of Gotham, who went a-wooing to a fair maiden, and his mother adviſed him before-hand, 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's ſhop, and bonght ſeven or eight pair of ſheep's eyes. And when this luſty wooer was at dinner, he would look upon this fair wench, and caſt in her face a ſheep's eye. and ſaid, How doſt thou do, my ſweet Pigſnie? How do I, ſaid the wench, Swine's face! What do you mean, by calling theſe ſheep's eyes at me? Oh! ſweet Pigſnie, have at thee with another But I ſhall defy thee, Swine's face, ſaid the wench. What, my ſweet old Pignie; be content now, for if you live till next year, you will be a foul low. Walk knave, walk, ſaid ſhe, for