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A Fellow was accused before a Justice for calling a woman Whore: the Justice ask'd, why he did so? he told him,
Be∣cause he had lain with her above a hun∣dred times. O pray Sir, says she, don't be∣lieve him: for he never lay with me but 3 times in his life, and then he promised to give me half a Crown a time; but I will assure you, Sir, I never receiv'd one pen∣ny of him. And why did you not ask him for it? says the Justice, Indeed Sir, says she, I did often call upon him for it, nay I call'd him Rogue too, because he would not pay me: why then, says the Justice, do you think him a Rogue? yes truly, Sir, says she, to aggravate the matter, he is a very Rogue: Nay, says the Justice, Then 'tis pity that a Rogue and a Whore should be parted, and so sent them both to Pri∣son together;then they both intreated him: Nay, says the Justice, confess and be hang'd; and so sent them both a∣way.