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18 My backside is wood, my belly is good, My ribs they are line with leather My nose is as brass, with two holes in my arse, And commonly used in bed weather

A Pair of Chamber Bellows.

A man, and no man, like fury laid on, Sir Green that was crown din sowre, With Sir White, and Sir back he stood to ths till all of then he did devous (tack A taylor eating of cucumbers, served up with pepper, salt, and vinegar.

To ease men of their care, I do both rend and tear, Their mother's bowels still: *The Earth Yet, for it there is few That seem to take it ill: Plough which breaks the bowels of the earth

It live and died, then after death, Bereav'd some hundreds of their breath, Assisted by a man of grief, To whom it yielded some relief,

The jaw-bone of an ass, wherewith Samson slev a thousand men, and was afterwards relieve himself, by water springing from the same when he was in thirst

There's many a teeth, but ne'er a tongue, a thousand at the cast; They are both east, west, north, and south, but seldom at a feast.

Pair of Woolen Card