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 THE WISE MEN OT GOTHAM. 13.

would not marry them. But he was inſtructed by others how to do, and was afterwards married. And thus the breed of the Gothamites as been perpetuated, even unto this day.

T A L E XVIII.

THERE was a Scotſman who dwelt at Gotham, and he took a houſe a little diſtance from London, and turned it into an inn; and for his ſign he would have a boar's head. Accordingly he went to a carver, and ſaid, can you make me a bare-head? Yes, ſaid the carver. Then ſaid he, make me a bare-head, and thou'ſe have 20d. for thy hire. I will do it, ſaid the carver. So on St. Andrew's day, before Chriſtmas, the which is called Yule in Scotland, the Scot came to London for his boar's head to ſet up at his door. to thee, ſpeak, ſaid the Scotſman, haſt thou made me a bare-head? Yes, ſaid the carver. He went and brought a man's head of wood that was bare and ſaid, Sir, here is your bare-head. Ay, ſaid the Scot the meikle de'il! is this a bare-head! Yes, ſaid the carver. I ſay, ſaid the Scotſman, I will have a bare-head, like a head that follows the ſow that has gryces. Sir, ſaid the carver. I don't know a ſow and gryces. What, horeſon, know you not a ſow that will greet and groan, and cry, a weak, a weak. What, ſaid the carver, do you mean a pig? Yes, ſaid the Scotſman, let me have her head made on timber, and ſet on her ſcalp, and let her ſing whip whire. The carver ſaid he could not. You whoreſon, ſaid he gar her as ſhe'd ſing whip whire. This ſhews that all men delight in their fancy,