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As for example, 



3 times 6s. 8d. is . . . . 2os. 



And so is 4 times 5s. . . . 2os. 



And so is 5 times 45. . . . 2os. 



And so is 6 times 35. 4<L , . . . 205. 



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 one 

 shilling of it for himself. 



As for example, s. d. 



6 8 



5 o 



4 o 



3 4 



make but 19 o 



But now you shall know, that when the four Gipsies saw that 

 he had got one shilling 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 to so high a contest about it, 

 as none that knows the faithfulness of one Gipsy to another, will 

 easily believe ; only we that have lived these last twenty years, 

 are certain that money has been able to do much mischief. 

 However the Gipsies were too wise to go to law, and did there- 

 fore choose their choice friends Rook and Shark, and our late 

 English Gusman to be their arbitrators and umpires; and so 

 they left this honey-suckle hedge, and went to tell fortunes, and 

 cheat, and get more money and lodging in the next village. 



When these were gone, we heard as high a contention 

 amongst the Beggars, whether it was easiest to rip a cloak, or to 

 unrip a cloak ? One Beggar affirmed it was all one. But that 

 was denied, by asking her, if doing and undoing were all one ? 

 then another said, 'twas easiest to unrip a cloak, for that was to 

 let it alone. But she was answered, by asking her, how she un- 

 ripped it, if she let it alone ? and she confessed herself mistaken. 

 These, and twenty such like questions were proposed, and 

 answered with as much beggarly logic and earnestness, as was 

 ever heard to proceed from the mouth of the most pertinacious 



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