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and ſold it for a long hawking pole, and a falconer's bag? which being tied to his ſide, and having drank up the poor man's hot water, he came reeling home with an owl upon his fiſt, ſaying, It is gentleman-like to be betwixt hawk and buzzard; and and he told the aquavitæ man, that he had ſent the trevot with three legs, to the next town to fill you bottles again.

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CHAP. IX.
Of Tom Tram's wooing Cicily Summers, the neat Wench of the weſt.

CICILY Summers, whoſe noſe was then as fair as the midnight ſun, which ſhined as bright as Baconthine, was beloved of young Tom Tram; and a ſad ſtory to tell, he grew not worth the bread he eat, through pining away for her love: Tom was loth to ſpeak but ſtill whiſtled; At laſt, when Cicily made no anſwer, he burſt out in thus: O Cicily Summers, if I Tom Train, ſon of mother Winter, and thou Cicily Summers, be joined together what a quarter ſhall we keep, as big as three half years; beſides Cicily Summers when thou ſcoldeſt, then Winter ſhall preſently cool thy heat; and when we walk on the ſtreet they'll ſay, yonder goes Summer and Win-