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The Scots Piper's Queries, &c.

Q. WHAT is the wiſeſt behaviour of ignorant perſons

A. To ſpeak of nothing but what they know, and to give their opinion of nothing but what they underſtand.

Q. What time is a ſcolding wife as the beſt?

A. When ſhe is faſt aſleep.

Q. What time is a ſcolding wife at the worſt?

A When ſhe is that wicked as to tear the hair out of her head, when ſhe can't get at her neighbour's, and thro perfect ſpite bites her tongue with her own teeth: my hearty wiſh is, that all ſuch wicked vipers may ever do ſo.

Q. What is the effectual cure and infallible remedy for a ſcolding wife