[18.] A Preacher, whose Sermons no body cared to hear, intreated a Friend of his to come to hear him. But he begged his Excuse, saying, that he was loth to disturb him in his Solitude. Another who had not the luck to please his Auditors; He did better last Year, said one. How can that be? said another, for he did not preach at all. In that very Thing he did better, reply'd the first.
[17.] One told a Bakers Son, that his Father was a Knave: Truly, says he, Though I say it, that should not say it, my Father is as honest a man as ever lived by bread.
the complaint of M. Tenter-hooke the Proiector, and Sir Thomas Dodger the Patentee.[186]
"I have brought money to fill your Chest
For which I am curst by most and least."
"Ov'r many yeare a scraping is left at a clap,
All thou hast gotten by others mishap."
If any aske, what things these Monsters be,
Tis a Projector and a Patentee: