All the Teeth of a certain talkative Lady being loose, she ask’d a Physician the cause of it, who Answered, It proceeded from the violent shakings she gave them, with her Tongue.
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Toutes les dents d’une Demoiselle, qui parloit beau coup, étant pretes à tomber, elle en demanda la cause à un Medecin, qui lui repondit, que c’ètoit à cause des secousses, qu’elle leur donnoit avec sa langue.
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A bad Painter who could not put off his Pictures, went into another Country and turn’d Physician; one who went that way knew him again, and ask’d him for what reason he went in the habit of a Physician; I have a mind, said he, to profess an art, wherein all mistakes are cover’d by the earth.
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Un méchant Peintre, qui ne pouvoit vendre ses ouvrages, s’en alla dans un autre païs & s’y fit Medecin; Quelqu’ un qui passoit par là le reconnut & lui demanda pour quelle raison il alloit vêtu en Medecin? Il répondit, J’ai voulu professer un Art, où toutes les fautes que l’on y fait, sont couvertes par la Terre.
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Certain Young Ladys walking in the fields met in their way, a Shepherd, who carried a Lamb to the Market, one among them coming near, stroak’d it, and said to her Companions, Look how pretty he is, he has yet no Horns; the Shepherd hearing that, reply’d, ’tis because he is not yet married.
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