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 ( 16 ) home fools,go home. Then Gilbert, Humphrey, and Chriftibel did the fame, The prieft then provided godfathers and godmothers himfelf. Here a man may fee, that children can do nothing without good indruc- tions, and that they are not wife who difregard them TALE XVI. A Young man of Gotham, went a wooing to fair maiden; his mother warned him before hand, faying, when- ever you lock at her, caft a fheep’s eye at her, and fay, How doft thou, my fweet Pigfnie ? The follow went to a butcher’s, and bought feven or eight, fheep’s eyes. And when this lufty wooer was at dinner, he would look upon this fair wench, and caft in her face a fbeep’s eye, faying, How doft thou do my fweet Pigfnie ? How I do, faid the wench, fwine’s-face, what do you mean, by cafting a fheep’s eye at me? Oh ! my fweet Pigtnie have at thee with another.But I defy thee, fwine's-face, faid the wench. What, my sweet old Pigfnie,be content,for if you live till next year,you will be a foul fow.Walk knave, walk, faid