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 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.

a time the Men of Gotham would fain have pinn'd in the cuckow, that ſhe might ſing to them all the year round; and in the midſt of their town they had a hedge trade round in compaſs, and got a cuckow and put her into it and ſaid, Sing here, and you ſhall lack neither meat nor drink all the year. But the cuckow, when ſhe perceiv'd herſelf encompaſſed within the hedge flew away. A vengeance on her, ſaid the wiſe Men, Behave not made our hedge high enough.

as a Man of Gotham who went to Nottingham-market to ſell cheeſe; and going down the hill to Nottingham bridge one of his cheeſes fell out of the wallet, and ran down the hill. Whoreſon, ſaid the fellow, what, can you run to the market alone? I'll then ſend them all after you. So, opening his wallet he tumbled the whole down the hill, one after