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Or a leverock build her nest; 

 Here, give my weary spirits rest, 

 And raise my low-pitch'd thoughts above 

 Earth, or what poor mortals love: 

 Thus free from Law-suits, and the noise 

 Of Princes' courts, I would rejoice, 



Or, with my Bryan, and a book, 

 Loiter long days near Shawford-brook ; 

 There sit by him, and eat my meat, 

 There see the sun both rise and set : 

 There bid good morning to next day, 

 There meditate my time away: 

 And angle on, and beg to have 

 A quiet passage to a welcome grave. 



When I had ended this composure, I left this place, and saw 

 a Brother of the Angle sit under that honey-suckle-hedge, one 

 that will prove worth your acquaintance ; I sat down by him, and 

 presently we met with an accidental piece of merriment, which I 

 will relate to you; for it rains still. 



On the other side of this very hedge sat a gang of Gipsies, 

 and near to them sat a gang of Beggars : the Gipsies were then 

 to divide all the money that had been got that week, either by 

 stealing linen or poultry, or by fortune-telling, or legerdemain, or 

 indeed by any other sleights and secrets belonging to their 

 mysterious government. 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 cor- 

 poration ; and for the remaining twenty shillings, that was to be 

 divided unto four gentlemen Gipsies, according to their several 

 degrees in their commonwealth. 



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

 a third part of the twenty shillings ; which all men know is 

 6s. 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 43. 



The fourth and last Gipsy, was to have a sixth part of the 

 2os. which all men know to be SB. 4d. 

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