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pudding ; and he alv/ays fang it in with, 

 ** My part lies therein-a'' He drank a glafs 

 or two of wine at meals ; put fyrup of gilly- 

 flowers into his fack ; and had always a tun- 

 glafs of fmall-beer ftanding by him, which he 

 often ftirred about with rofemary. He lived 

 to be an hundred ; and never loft his eye-fight, 

 nor ufed fped:acles. He got on horfe-back 

 without help ; and rode to the death of the 

 (lag, till he was paft fourfcore. 



