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A. Because he has many to wait on and call
on him.
Q. How is swearing like a shabby coat?
A. Because it is a bad habit.
Q. How is a bad pen like a wicked and progate man?
A. Because it wants mending.
Q. Why is a church bell like a story that is
funded about?
A. Because it is often toll'd.
Q. What is a man like that is in the midst of
river and cannot swim?
A. He is like to be drowned.
Q. Why is a drawn tooth like a thing that is
forgot?
A. Because it is out of one's head.
Q. Why is a book like a tree?
A. Because it is full of leaves.
Q. Why is a good sermon like a plump
pudding?
A. Because there is reasons in it.
Q. How is a whorish woman like a charitable
person?
A. Because she brings her husband to a piece
bread.
Q. How is a lawyer like a contentious woman?
A. Because he breeds wrangling and jangling.
