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A Gentleman taking compassion of •• poor fool that went up and down th•• Streets almost naked in the extremity o•• Winter, gave him an old Coat; not lon•• after one called him and gave him a ha•• penny loaf: Oh pray, quoth he, to th•• Donor, let me leave my coat till I have carried home my half penny loaf, and I wil•• fetch my coat another time.