16 The MERRY TALES of the home tools, go home Then Gilbert Humphrey, and Chriſtibel, did the fame. The prieſt then provided god fathers and godmothers himſelf. - Here x man may fee, that children can do nothing without good inſtruc- tions, and that they are not wife who diſregard them. T. ALE XVI. A Young man of Gotham went a wooing to a fair maiden; his mother warned him before hand, ſaying, when ever you look aa her, caſt a ſheep's eye at her, and ſay, How doſt thou, my ſweet Pigſnie? The fellow went to a butcher's and bought ſeven or eight ſheeps' eyes, And when this luſty wooer was at dinner, he would look upon this fair wench, and caſt in her face a ſheer's eye, ſaying. How doſt thou do, my ſweet Pigſie! How do I do, ſaid the wench, ſwine's-face, what do you mean, by cafting a ſheep's eye at me? Oh! sweet pigſnie, have at thee with another. But I defy thee, ſwine's-face, ſaid the wench. What, my ſweer old Pigſnie, be content, for if you live till next year, you will be a ſoul ſow. Walk knave walk, ſaid,
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