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am ſo; I pray you reſolve me. The cryer perceiving his ignorance, ſaid, Alas! man, thou art no witch, thou lookeſt more like a cuckold than a witch. Then waking a leg to the court, he gave them thanks, and ſo returned home cheerfully. His wife, meeting him at the town's end, ſaid Huſband, art thou a witch or not? No, wife, they ell me I look more like a cuckold. Huſband, ſay they ſo, we will have hem taken up for witches, for un- eſs they were witches they could not ell that you was a cuckold.

A young woman being alone, a gentleman came into her company, who after a friendly ſalutation, aſked ow her huſband did. She ſaid, He s as croſs and unkind to me a ever man was to a wife; ſo that I have but ittle comfort in his converſation, A- as! quoth he, why do not you make him a cuckold? She ſmiling ſaid, Sir, cannot, but you may.

A Welchman meeting with a bonny Scot, began to brag of hur wonderful dventures and long travels. The Scot replied, What have you learned in far ountries? The Welchman ſaid, Hun has