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7 a country ale-house; where notwithstanding he had gotten a lusty jug before, yet fell he to drinking of beer and cyder, as if his belly was bottomless. At last, growing sleepy, he went to bed, where it was his chance to be lodged in the same chamber where one of his acquaintances was already in bed: Who as he lay down sooner than Poor Robin, so the next morning was he no sooner got up providing a pot and toast ready against Poor Robin arose, but a foul mischance befel Poor Robin in the meantime, for the wine, beer, and cyder not agreeing in his belly, the very mannerly, sir-reverence beshit the bed: Whereupon not knowing what to do, and being loth to be discredited, a crotchet came into his crown, which he presently put in execution: He takes the stinking sheets from off his own bed and lays them on his friend's, and then takes his and lays them on his own bed: so, Spreading the coverlet as if nothing was amiss, he makes himself ready, and down stairs he goes. No sooner was he below t his friend arrest him at Mr Fox's suit, and by all means would make him pay his great for being drunk. Poor Robin excused himself as well as he could, and would be judged by the landlord whether