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 21 morrow about mid day; and their bets were why had the lovingeft wife: fo they agreed for a trial of their good nature. that every man fhould do what his wife had him do at foon as ever he went home, for who did not as fhe ordered him was to pay all the reckoning ; which was feven- and fixpence; or if all of them did as his wife bad them, they were to pay all alike So on this agreement they all went away to the hatter's houfe and in he goes like a madman dancing and jumping on the floor, his wife at the very time was ta- king off the pot and fetting it in the mid- dle of the floor, he ftill dancing about; tow, fays the wio ding ever the pot with thy madnefs; fo he gave it a kock and o- ver it went and that faved him as he had done what his wife bid him do. Then a- way they went to the tailor's houfe and in he goes likewife but his wife fell a fcol- ding him: O, fays he my dear give me a kifs; kifs my arfe you drunken rogue, faid fhe then to her he flies and whips her over the bed, up with her petticoats, and kiffes her arfe before them all, and that faved him. Than away they went to the fhoemaker’s; and in he goes