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A Lady of great quality had a female Dwarf to attend on her, the excellency of whose features, and acutness of wit, so engaged her Ladies affecti∣on to her, that nothing could plead an equality or esteem with her breast, and fearing that death would too soon deprive her of this pretty little Ani∣mal, one day she proposed to her a marriage, that thereby she might by the smalness of the issue, have her remembrance continued; but all the Ladies trouble consisted in this, that she knew not where to get an husband so little that would fit her; Ma∣dam, said she, take you no care for that, I have lately been in your Ladyships Celler, and there I found Casks of several Sizes, viz. The great bel∣lied Hogs-head, the slender, yet long pipe, the little Kilterkin, and the lesser Ferkin, and yet ob∣serving their Bung-holes, I found them all much about an equal wideness.