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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 whoring often hang together.
A. Soldiers and Butchers are bloody near relations, for they both live by flaughtering 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.
Q. Who is the likest to a Boatman ?
A. Anhypocrite, who always looks one way and rows another, in all his trans- actions.
Q. What are the five greatest rarities to be found in the world ?
A. A black Swan, a Phoenix, an Uni- corn, the Philosophers’ Stone, and a maid- en at sixteen.
Q. What is the greatest folly that sen- sible people can be guilty of?
A. To go to Law about trifles, for, whatever way the Plea ends, the Lawyers will be the greatest gainers.
Q. Who has the honestest trade in the world?
A. Ballad-singers; for they always deal
