‘This is a mad blade,’ the butchers then said;

Saies the sheriff, He is some prodigal,

That some land has sold, for silver and gold,

And now he doth mean to spend all.

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‘Hast thou any horn-beasts,’ the sheriff repli’d,

‘Good fellow, to sell unto me?’

‘Yes, that I have, good Master Sheriff,

I have hundreds two or three.

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