Now you talk of Sowes,
Pray, Neighbour, how does your wife?
[18.] John Scot so famous for his Learning, sitting at Table with a young Gallant, was by way of Jest, asked by him what Difference there was between Scot and Sot. To which he presently reply'd Mensa tantum, that is the Tables breadth; for the other sat just over against him.
The Devil's Oak:
or, his
Ramble in a Tempestuous Night, where he
hapn'd to Discourse with Men of
several Callings, of his own
Colour and Complexion.
To a very pleasant new Tune.
[21.]And the Devil he was weather-beat,
and forc'd to take a tree,
Because the tempest was so great,