18 came to feven and fixpence ; or if all of them did as their wives bid them, then they were to pay all alike. So on this agreement they all came away, firft to the hatter’s houfe, and in he goes like a mad man, dancing and jumping round the floor, his wife was taking off the pot and fetting it on the floor, he ftill dancing about, ding o- ver the pot with thy madnefs; fo he gives it a kick and over it went, and that faved him, as he had done what his wife bade him do. Then away they go to the tailor’s houfe, in he goes dancing likewife, but his wife fell a fcolding him : O, fays he, give me a kifs? kifs my arfe you drunken rogue, faid fhe, then to her flies and lays her on the bed up, with her petticoats and kiffes her arfe before them all, and that faved him. Then away they went to the fhoe-maker’s, and in he goes very merry, and dancing about as he faw the other two do, laying come my dear heart, and give me a kifs? Go hang yourfelf you drunken dog, faid fhe, fo he muft either go and hang himfelf directly, or pay the reckoning.
