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A Scholar coming home from Cambridge to his Father, his Father askt him what he had learnt? Why Father, says he, I'll prove that this Capon is better than the bles∣sing of God. How Zon, says he, come let's hear it; Why thus, Father, says he, no∣thing you know is better than the blessing of God, and this Leg of the Capon is bet∣ter than nothing; Ergo▪ Tarbox, thou meanest, says his Father. And well, and what else canst thou do? Why, says he, I'll prove these two Chickens to be three; thus, here's one: Well, says his Father, and here's another, that's two: Well, says he, and is not one and two three? Well, says his Fa∣ther, you have spoke very well, here Wife, do thee take one, and I'll take t'other; and