[136] Counted heads, so that all should pay their due proportion.
[78.] Two Gentlemen talking in latin, in the presence of a woman, she grew jealous that they spake of her, and desired them to speake english that she might answer them, for she said she was perswaded when men spake latin, although they spake but two words, that still one of them was naught: where upon one of the Gentlemen sayd presently, Bona mulier,[137] she replyed, I know bona is good, but I'le warrant ye the other word meanes something that's nought.
[137] Good woman.
The
Young-Man & Maidens Forecast;
shewing how
They Reckon'd their Chickens before they were Hatcht.
To the Tune of, The Country Farmer, Or The Devonshire Damosels.
This may be Printed R. P.
[84.]I'll tell you a Jest of a Provident Lass,
Whose Providence prov'd her a Provident Ass;
She laid forth her store in such brittle Ware,
That very small profit did fall to her share;