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ment. And the sum that was got that week proved to 

 be but twenty and some odd shillings. The odd money 

 was agreed to be distributed amongst the poor of their 

 own corporation ; and for the remaining twenty shillings, 

 that was to be divided unto four gentlemen gipsies, 

 according to their several degrees in their common- 

 wealth. 



And the first or chiefest gipsy was, by consent, to have 

 a third part of the 205., which all men know is 65. 8d. 



The second was to have a fourth part of the 20s., which 

 all men know to be 5s. 



The third was to have a fifth part of the 20s., which all 

 men know to be 4s. 



The fourth and last gipsy was to have a sixth part of 

 the 20s., which all men know to be 3s. 4d. 

 As for example, 



3 times 6s. 8d. is 20s. 

 And so is 4 times 5s. . . 20s. 

 And so is 5 times 4s. . . 20s. 

 And so is 6 times 3s. 4d. . 20s. 

 And yet he that divided the money was so very a 

 gipsy, that though he gave to every one these said sums, 

 yet he kept Is. of it for himself. 



As for example, s. d. 

 6 8 

 5 

 4 



3 4 

 i 



make but . . 19 



But now you shall know, that when the four gipsies 

 saw that he had got Is. by dividing the money, though 

 not one of them knew any reason to demand more, yet, 

 like lords and courtiers, every gipsy envied him that was 

 the gainer, and wrangled with him, and every one said 

 the remaining shilling belonged to him : and so they fell 



