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Which are the two things not to be ſpared, and not to be abuſed?
A. A ſoldier's coat, and a hired horſe.
Q. How is a man in debt, like a nobleman?
A. Becauſe he has many to wait and call for 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 profligate man?
A. Becauſe it wants mending.
Q. Why is a church-bell like a ſtory, that is handed about?
A. Becauſe it is often toll'd.
Q. What is a man like, that is in the midſt of a river, and cannot ſwim?
A. 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 plumb-pudding?
A. Becauſe there is reaſons in it.
Q. How a whoriſh woman like a charitable perſon?
