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DIvers Courtiers at Paris passing the new Bridge, espied a blind Man with the balls of his eyes so faire that they suspected hee was a coun∣terfeit. A Duke amongst them, being basely borne, told them hee would make experiment of his truth, for said hee, if hee can see hee must needs know mee, he daily sitting here, and I dai∣ly passing by, and being a man
of eminency. Whereupon hee went directly to the beggar, and pulled him by the nose, whereat the beggar roar'd out, and cal'd him bastardly rogve. My masters, said the Duke, he sees perfectly, he could nere have known mee so well else. But the man indeed was blind, and this onely a vicious speech often in his mouth.