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Q. Who is the greatest fool in the world?
A. A whore; for she hazards soul and body
or a miserable livelihood.
Q. Who are the two greatest thieves im
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 Usurers, Tallymen, and
Pawn-brokers go.
A. The same road with Extortioners.
Q. What is the consequence of immoderate
gaming?
A. By cards and dice, a man is ruin'd in a
trice? for gaming and whoring often hang together.
Q. What employments are likest to one another?
A. Soldiers and Butchers are bloody near relations, for they 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, and good small beer.
