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A meer Scholar sent one day for Tim the S••••th to hang up two Pictures, and asking him, when he had done, what he must have? Sir, saith Tim, there are two Ten-penny Nails, and what you please
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A meer Scholar sent one day for Tim the S••••th to hang up two Pictures, and asking him, when he had done, what he must have? Sir, saith Tim, there are two Ten-penny Nails, and what you please
for my labour. Well there Sirrah are two Shillings, said, the Gentleman, that is, a Groat for thy pains, and twenty pence for thy Nails; Go thy ways.