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20 oranges, (for 'tis below a gentleman to stand haggling like a citizen's wife,) and then to present the fairest to the next vizard mask." Pepys, when challenged in the pit for the price of twelve oranges which the orange-woman said he owed her, but which he says was wholly untrue, was not content with denying the debt, "but for quiet bought four shillings' worth of oranges from her at sixpence a-piece." This was a high price, but the Clerk of the Acts was true to the direction in the Gallant's Academy.