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Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century

Note 178 — Good Ale for my Money171

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[86.] One affirmed that he had been in a certain Country, where their Bees were as big as our Sheep. This impudent lye one began to examine, and therefore said, sure then the Bee-hives must be of a huge bignesse; No, saith the other, they are no bigger than ours; How then can they get in? said one. This bogled178 the lyar like a Mouse in pitch; at last he answered, let them whom it concerns look to that.

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