Wit and mirth chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost / by Iohn Taylor, water-poet.

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A Lusty Miller that in his younger daies had béene much giuen to the flesh and the deuill; so that not one pretty maid or female seruant did or could bring grist to his Mill to be grownd, but the knaue 〈◊〉〈◊〉 would doe his best to vndermine and blow vp their chastity, and withall hée would bargain with as many as his temp∣tations ouercame, that at his day of mari∣age euery one of them should giue him a Cake. In processe of time the Miller was married, and those foresaid 〈◊〉〈◊〉-hearted Wenches sent each one their cakes, to the number of 99. His wife the bride, who also went for a maid, did muse and aske what was the meaning of so many Cakes?

The miller told her the truth of all without any dissembling: to whom his wife answe∣red, If I had beene so wise in bargaining as you haue beeue in your time, the young men of my acquaintance would haue sent me 100 cheeses to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with your cakes.

This bawdy Miller in a trap was catcht, Nor onely married, but most fitly matcht: In this the prouerb is approued plaine, What bread men breake is broke to them againe.