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Shakespeare Jest-Books: A Hundred Mery Talys

by W. Carew Hazlitt

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¶ Of the Parson That Stale the Mylners Elys. LXXVIII

Too imperfect to decypher.

¶ Of the Welchman That Saw One Xls. Better Than God. LXXIX

¶ A Welchman on a tyme went to churche to be shryued, and chanced to come in euyn at the sacryng-time.123 When he had confessed him he went home, wher one of his felowes askyd hym whether he had seen God Almighty to day; which answerd and sayd: nay, but I saw one forty shillings better.

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