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11 foot instead of the head of it; where remembering how by his ill husbandry he had offended his wife, to appease her anger he falls to kissing her posteriors imagining it had been her mouth, but finding the platform bigger than his face, asked her the question if her cheeks were swell'd? She for answer returns him a foist, which makes him to ask her again if her breath did stink, whereupon she burst in to a very great laughter, let such a crack that the grains flew about his face: whereupon in a great rage turning him on the other side, "you beastly quean, (quoth he) must you spit in my face, the devil himself shall kiss you e'er I'll kiss you again."

CHAP. IX.

As Poor Robin was more addicted to flesh than fish, so of all sorts of flesh he loved a dish of lamb-stones best; a merry disposed companion knowing his appetite, resolved to put a trick upon him; a gentleman of the town who kept a pack of hounds, having gelt his dogs, he gets the stones and with a few sweet-breads presents them to Poor Robin, as a dainty,