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Q. Who are the two greatest thieves
in Great Britain?
A. Tea and Tobacco, for they pick
the pockets of the whole nation.
Q. What is the difference between
Ale-drapers, and Linen drapers?
A. Only this, the one cheats you
with froth, and the other with cloth.
Q. If Extortioners cannot enter the
Kingdom of Heaven, where will Usur-
ers, Tallymen, and Pawn-brokers go.
A. The same road with Extortioners.
Q. What is the consequence of im-
moderate gaming?
A. By cards and dice, a man is
ruin'd in a trice; for gaming and whor-
ing often hang together.
Q. What employments are likest to
one another?
A. Soldiers and Butchers are bloody
near relations, for the both live by
slaughtering and killing.
Q. What are the two hardest things
to be found, and yet they are both good
in their kind?
A. Good women, & good small beer.
Q. Who is the likest to a Boatman?
A. An hypocrite, who always looks
one way and rows another, in all his
transactions.
