A. Soldiers and Butchers are bloody near relations, for they both live by slaughtering and killing.
Q. What are the two hardest things to be found, and yet they are both good in their kind?
A. Good women, and good small beer.
Q. Who is the likest to a Boatman?
A. An hypocrite, who always looks one way and rows another, in all his transactions.
Q. What are the five greatest rarities to be found in the world?
A. A black Swan, a Phœnix, an Unicorn, the Philosophers’ Stone, and a maiden at sixteen.
Q. What is the greatest folly that sensible people can be guilty of?
A. To go to law about trifles, for whatever way the plea end, the lawyers will be the greatest gainers.