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he cried out, "O let us be gone from this place! for if two or three make such a quarrel in our town, certainly there is no abiding here for men in their wit." A country gentleman over-hearing him, "I remember," quoth he, "once I heard a story of a man that went down to hell, wherein be beheld men of all professions, ages and conditions, saving only lawyers, which made him the more to wonder, because he imagined them all there, and asking the devil the reason, he made this reply, 'We have them here, tho' you see them not, but we are forc'd to keep them in a room by themselves, lest they should set all the devils in hell at variance.'" Poor Robin laughed very heartily at this tale and having now satisfied his inn, and having discharged all reckonings his ⟨friends⟩ and he returned home.
CHAP. XVIII.
Poor Robin daily frequenting the ⟨tavern⟩ and ale-house had learned of his companions many drunken whimsies and ⟨other⟩ odd conceits, as the five properties ⟨that⟩ belong to any host,—that he must ⟨have⟩
