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 neck, ſaying, Now you muſt firſt go to Loughborough. and then to Leiceſter, and at Newark is our landlord; then commend us unto him, and there is his due. The hare, as ſoon as ſhe got out of their hands, ran a quite contrary way. Some cried after her, Thou muſt firſt go to Loughborough; others ſaid, Let her alone, for the knows a nearer way than any of us do.

A Man of Gotham that went a mawing in a meadow, found a large graſshopper. He immediately threw down his ſcythe, and ran home to his neighbours, and ſaid, That ſurely the devil was in the field, and was hopping amongſt the graſs— Then was every man ready, with their clubs, and ſtaves, halberts, and other weapons, to kill the graſshopper. When they came almoſt to the place where the graſshopper was, they ſaid one to the other, Let every one croſs himſelf from the devil, for we will not meddle with him. So they returned again, and ſaid, We were bleſt this day that we went no farther. O ye cowards, ſaid he that teft his ſcythe in the meadow, help me to