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A witty Gentleman, and a lover of mirth, being invited by his friend to din∣ner, and a dish of Partridges being set before him, he went to take one; but the claws of it were so intangled with the claws of another, that he could not easily get them assunder: Nay, said he, if you fight all day, and are resolved to do so, I shall never part you; and so took them both to his plate.