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A20101	Iests to make you merie with the coniuring vp of Cock VVatt, (the walking spirit of Newgate) to tell tales. Vnto which is added, the miserie of a prison, and a prisoner. And a paradox in praise of serieants. Written by T.D. and George Wilkins.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.; Wilkins, George, fl. 1607. aut	1607 (1607)	STC 6541; ESTC S105305	41,447	64

bee hangd if euer thou playst a good christian The 23. Iest. A Gentlewoman comming to one that stood at a window reading a booke Sir sayd she I would I were your booke because she lou●d the Gentlemā So would I quoth he I wish you were But what booke would you haue me to bee sayd the other if I were to be so Mary an Almanacke quoth the Gentleman because I would change euery yeare The 24. Iest. TWo Brothers méeting together sayd the welthier of them to the other And how goes the world Brother what you rub out make shift to liue Yes faith replyed the second I thank God and liue without shifting too The 25. Iest. A Cittizen ●●tting with his wife at doore cald his child to him that was playing before them to giue him an apple and bid him say thanke you Father the mother likewise was busie to teach him that lesson But a Gentleman passing by iust at the instant who belike had taken vp of the wife some of her husbands commodities stept to her and whispring in her eare asked if she were not asham'd to teach her child to lie being yong the husband séeing a stranger so sau●ie with his wife grew halfe angry and askt her what customer that was what he spake in her eare Nothing Sir sayd she but séeing me eate apples hee askt if I would haue any chéese to my fruit The 26. Iest. VVHat reason saies one so his friend has your Lord to keepe a foole He hath no reason at all answered the other The 27. Iest. THou art an arrant Begger saies a Merchant to a Scholler true Sir answered the Scholler for I am an hone●● man but you can be no Begger for all the city knowes you Play the Merchant The 28. Iest. A Woman finding her husband reeling in the stre●tes till hée was vnable to stand rayld vpon him and sayd art not thou ashamd to lie like a drunken beast thus in the open streetes thou liest like a sober whore as thou art quoth hee if I were a beast I would not lie drunke The 29. Iest. ONe that had bin Knighted but lately ryding through Poules churchyard his wife his chamber-maide the nurse and two young children sitting in the Coach with him his sonne and heire leading the way before the creatures in blew trotting too and too behind Oh saies a prentice that ●●ood in his shop to his fellow By Ioue me thinkes it s a braue thing to be a Knight A braue thing quoth 〈◊〉 fellow what an asse art thou a man may haue any thing for money The 30 Iest AN old man talking with his sonne and comparing this Age with that which he liued in when he was a Boy said that now the world was cleane found vpside downe Nay that 's not true father replyed the other for i● it were so women should goe with their heeles vpwards The 31. Iest. A Lady that by sitting to sée a play at Court came home late cald for victuals and swore she was as hungry as a dogge It may be as a bitch Madam sayd her page standing by else the comparison will not hol● The 32. Iest. A Fishmonger hauing lost all his money at dice to another gamster sauing three or foure shillings clapt it all downe on the boord together What doe you set sayd the other this Dosser quoth the fishmonger and then I haue done The 33. Iest. ONe that had neuer bin seene to handle weapon being met with a great basket-hilt sword by his side was demanded why he caried so much Iron about him Mary sayd he for foure causes to kill dogs and to kéepe off Sergeants to huff bawdes and to guard my whore The 34. Iest. A Yong man being taken by a watch in the day time for an idle fellow was by a Constable brought before one of the Sheriffes of London and being examined what he was and whom he had serued it was found that hee had bin in diuerse seruices but had shifted his Maisters almost euery yeere wherupon the Sheriffe sayd hee should goe to bridewell and there grind chalke I am contented to doe so answered the fellow but doe me Iustice good Maister Sheriffe let all your Officers h●● sent to grind chalke too for I am sure they shift their Maisters euery yeere aswell as I. The 35. Iest. A Barber standing very sadly at his shop doore one of his customers came to him and asked him why he lookt so scuruily Oh sayd the Barber my maide has had a sore mischance my man has playd the knaue with her and got her with child Call you that a mischance quath the other of all chances in the dice I warrant your maide likes that best your man has done no more then what he is bound to by indenture which is to follow his trade and that 's to trimme folkes The 36. Iest. A Country Gentleman comming downe Westward by water to London vpon the day when my Lord Maiors Galley ●●ist was in all her holliday attire and séeing such triumphing on the Theames but not knowing the cause demanded of his Watermen why there was such drumming and piping and trumpeting and wherefore all those Barges like so many Water-pageants were caryed vp and downs so gaylie with Flags and Streamers It was told him the Lord Mayor went that day to be sworne to Westminister What neede your Lord Mayor quoth he goe so farre to be sworne I haue heard ther● is as good swearing in London as in any place in England but goe all these in blacke gownes to be sworne there too No Sir sayd his Waterman these sweare fast enough in the cittie The 37. Iest. A Company of Gallants hauing supped in a Tauerne and being as the fashion is extreamely ouer-reckend in their bill of Items yet paying all departed in as extrea me a chafe swearing neuer to hold vp their hands agen at that vnmercifull barre One of the rest as he went along demanded in mockerie what was to pay Nothing sayd one of the pewter-potclinkers All is payd sir I le take my oath vpon a booke All is payd answered the other for we payd you well and you haue payd vs soundly The 38. Iest. A Scrinener meeting an Atturnie in Fleete-streete after some talke had passed betwéene them asked him how they should doe 〈◊〉 so much of the 〈◊〉 was cut off truth saies the Atturnie for my part 〈◊〉 shuffle for one Michaelmas tearme you know is like a great houshold loa●e you may cut out a good many shi●es and yet feeds vpon it well too I care not so I may come but to haue a cut at the last cantle But how quoth the Scrinener if it bee cut all cleane away Say it bee replyed the Lawyer it s but like a Barbers cutting off a mans haire within a little time after it will grow againe and he 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 againe The 39. Iest. VVHen the Horse 〈◊〉 on the top of Poules a Seruingman came sweating to his Maister that

was walking in the 〈◊〉 I le and told him the wonder he had séene and what multitudes of people were in the streetes staring to behold it the fellow most vehemently intreating his Maister to goe and make one Away thou fool● sayd hee what neede I goe so farre to sée a Horse on the top when I can looke vpon so many Asses at the bottome O yes Sir replyed the Seruingman you may sée Asses heere euery day but peraduenture you shall neuer see a Horse there againe though there were a thousand beasts in the citti● The 40. Iest. A Clarke of y ● Guyide Hall being requested by his Client at the end of a Triall to draw him out a bill of charges Yes sayd the Clarke I will draw it out presently and did so the Client running it ouer knew to himselfe that he was at more cost with him then was needfull yet sayd nothing because hee was to vse his helpe in other matters but payd it all and then requested my young Lawyer to goe drinke a cup of Muscadine with him at the Tauerne which he did the Client at the end of the shot paying all too Nay them quoth the Clarke By the Lord I haue done you wrong to put you to so much charges In good troth answered the Cliēt so I thought before though I sayd nothing but since you sweare it now I dare verily belieue it The 41. Iest. TWO Cittizens ouer-taking one another as they came from Westminister the one of them being excéeding pen●●ue it was askt by the other why he went so heauily O quoth hee I haue reason to goe heauily for I had an Action tryed to day at Westminister of 200. ● and it is gone against me Who was your Counsell sayd the other Mary such a one replyed the second What strange qualities quoth the first haue these men of law the selfe same man that makes you so heauy has made me excéeding light The 42. Iest. A Prisoner that stood vpon his comming forth was put backs till he had payd such fees as the Keepers demanded of him which he thought were vnreasonable and against both l●we and conscience whereupon he raild at them cald them bloud-hounds bloud-suckers hel-hounds and such other vngodly names but one standing by counsaild him to hold his tongue and not to spit his venome against men that are in place for sayd hee Keepers of Prisons are as good men as the best where they take The 43. Iest. A Young wanton wench that had maryed an old man being a Forrester whō she had so transford that comming amongst the heard of Deere he went for a Stag fell suddenly sicke for the loue of a Gallāt that had a good while together gone a hunting with her but vpon some dislike of his game gaue it ouer the kind old fellow her husband that suspected nothing brought her a Doctor but the cause of her disease being loue she proud him a D●nce he could neither by her water nor by feeling her pulse find what sicknes bred within her whereupon the old Ranger her husband perswaded her to shew all how it came first vpon her for sayd he we must hide nothing from our Phisitian Why then quoth she good husband shew your forhead to him which me thinkes is all broken out Alas sayd he that 's onely the weaknes of thy sight Nay husband sayd the sicke louer if your browes grieue not you they shall neuer hurt me The 44. Iest. A Country H●bbin●ll h●●ing seene she mad-folkes in Bedlam fell so in ●oue with their trickes that he swore he could ●nd in his heart to liue in the Sommer-time amongst them and demanded of him that caryed him thether to see them how he might soonest be made to runne mad if one had such a mind● easily sayd the other for doe but mary with a whore or else haue to doe with players and thou shalt quickly runne madde The 45. Iest. A Wench hauing a good face a good body and good clothes on but of bad conditions sitting one day in the two-penny roome of a play-house number of yong Gentlemen about her against all whom she maintaind talke One that sat ouer the stage sayd to his friend doe you not thinke that yonder flesh will stincke anon hauing so many flyes blowing vpon it Oh quoth his friend I thinke it stinckes already for I neuer saw so many crowes together but there was some carion not far off The 46. Iest. LOoke sayd one is it not strange yonder is a fellow that the last day went for a Lieftenant and now he is a Pandor Alas sayd one that stood next him Souldiers you know if they cannot get it by faire meanes they will haue it out of the flesh The 47. Iest. A Couple of Gentlemen talking of a common Punck one of them sayd she was a Recusant Nay before God quoth the other that 's a lie shee le take any thing The 48. Iest. A Uniuersity man cald one of the Constables of London Onyon at which the Constable as if he had bin slyced into peeces kept a coyle and wondered why he should call him an Onyon that was rather one of the best dishes that stood vpon the table of Iustice Mary sayd the Scholler I tell thée againe thou art an Onyon because thou hast a great head but no wit in it The 49. Iest. TWo Tradesmen falling out and vpbrayding one another with house-keeping miserable feeding of their seruants Saies the one I spend more mustard and vineger in a yeare in my house then thou dost béefe in thine Nay quoth the other I believe thée for I alwaies tooke thee for a very saucie knaue The 50. Iest. A Notable scolding Queane ralling hand to hand with thrée men that were her neighbours and beating them all three at it because it was her owne weapon her husband standing by ● taking part with neither At last shee began to reuile him and told those that fl●ckt about her how her husband thought to haue euery rascall a top on her And reason good quoth one that ●ood by what 〈◊〉 Iades for but to be made hackneis The 51. Iest. A Gentleman made all the friends he could to the Captaine of the french Kings guard that hee might bee one of them but the Captaine told him he was so hardly prest vpon by sun●ry Noble men for their Seruants and fellowes that he could not by any meanes doe him the pl●●sure Oh sir quoth the gentleman sure you mistake you are not as I am told so prest vpon by so many Noble men but rather with so many Nobles The 52. Iest. A Water-bearer complaynd before a Iustice of his wifes misusing and ouer-maistring him t is strange quoth the Iustice that you two should iarre for I am told that you Sirra are neuer seene to goe into an Alehouse but your wife is seene there too you are neuer drunke but she is drunke too you neuer quarrell with your neighbours but she quarrels too I