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15 very one's knee for to hold their egg n when hot; when ſupper was over he prieſt lookt down between his legs, and ſeeing the white cloth, thought it vas his own ſhirt tail, and verly ſlyly taps it in to his breeches, bit and bit, which the landlady and the maid ob- erved, but was aſhamed to tell him ; o home he went with the ſervit in his breeches, and knew nothing of it till going to bed, when it fell from himː his wife enquired how he came by it, ne could not tell, but was ſurpriſed how he came to have more bulk in his breeches than formerly, but obſerving the name they ſent it back again, the prieſt pleaded to be excuſed, owned himſelf only a thief in ignorance.

As two, maids were coming from milking their cows, one of them ſtepping over a ſtile, fell and ſpilt the whole paleful of milk from her head. O, ſaid ſhe what will I do, what will I do? O, ſaid the other maid let it go, who can help it now, you can't take up again, it's not your maidenead. My maidenhead, ſaid ſhe, if it were my maiden head, I would think no-