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 fools, go home. Then Gilbert, Humpurty and cu tibel did the ſame. The Priest then provided godfa- thers and godmothers himſelf. Here a man may fee, that children can do nothing without good inſtructions, and that they are not wife who diſregard them.

T A L E XVI.

A young man of Gotham went a wooing to a fai maid; his mother warned him beforehand, ſay- ing, Whenever you look at her caſt a ſheep's eye a her, and fay, How doſt-thou, my ſweet Pigſnie? Th fellow went to a butcher's and bought ſeven or eig! ſheep's eyes. And when this laſty wooer was at dii ner, he would look upon this fair wench and caſt her face a ſheep's eye, ſaying, How doſt thou do n ſweet Pigſnie? How I do I do, ſaid the wench, Swine face, what do you mean by caſting a ſheep's eye me? Oh! ſweet Pigſnie, have at thee with anoth But I defy thee, Swine's-face, ſaid the wench. W my ſweet old Pigſnie, be content, for if you live the next year you wil be a foul ſow. Walk kna walk, ſaid Me, for if you live till the next year y will be a fool.

T A L E XVII.

THERE was a man of Gotham, who would married, and when the day of marriage come they went to church. The Prieſt ſaid, Do Say after me. The man ſaid, Do you ſay after The Prieſt ſaid, Say not after me ſuch words, but what I ſhall tell you; thou doſt play the fool to n the holy Scripture concerning matrimony. Ther fellow ſaid, thou doſt play the fool to mock the