162 THE COMPLETE AXGLEE. [PART i. 



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. 8 d. is 20s. 



And so is 4 times 5s. 20s. 



And so is 5 times 4s. 20s. 



And so is 6 times 3s. 4c?. 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 one shilling of it for himself. 



As for example, s. d. 



6 8 



5 



4 



3 4 



Make but . . . 19 



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 therefore choose their 

 choice friends Book and Shark, and our late English Gusman, 1 

 to be their arbitrators and umpires. And so they left this 



1 There is extant in the Spanish language, a book which has been 

 translated into English, and most of the other European languages, intitled, 

 " The Life of Guzman d'Alfarache ; " containing an account of many cheats 

 and rogueries which this same Guzman is related to have practised. But 

 the above allusion is to " The English Guzman ; or the History of that 

 unparalleled Thief, James Hind, written by G[eorge] F[idge], 4to, Lond., 

 1652," in imitation of this book. Hind appears to have been the grandest 

 thief of his age ; the son of a saddler at Chipping Norton, and apprenticed 

 to a butcher. In the rebellion he attached himself to the royal cause, 

 and was actively engaged in the battles of Worcester and Warrington. 

 In 1651, he was arrested by order of Parliament, under the name of 



