Both Stock and Credit goes to Rack.
There's many more, as well as I,
in famous London City fair,
Whose Wives with prodigality
doth fill their Husbands hearts with care;
I pity those with all my Heart,
Since I with them do bear a Part.
[4.] Two Persons who had been formerly acquainted, but had not seen each other a great while, meeting on the Road, one ask'd the other how he did; he told him He was very well, and was Married since he saw him: the other reply'd, That was well indeed: not so well neither, said he, for I have Married a Shrew. That's ill, said the other. Not so ill neither, said he, for I had 2000 Pounds with her. That's well again, said his Friend. Not so well neither, for I laid it out in Sheep, and they died of the Rot. That was ill indeed, said the other. Not so ill neither, said he, for I sold the Skins for more money than the Sheep cost. That was well, indeed, quoth his friend. Not so well neither, said he, for I laid out my money in a House and it was burned. That's very ill, said the other. Not so ill neither, said he, for my Wife was burned in it.
On a little Gentleman and one Mr Story.
[5.]The little man, by t'other man's vain glory,