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The Art of Juggling or Legerdemain

by Samuel Rid

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An Olde Womans Charme Wherewith She Did Much Good in the Cuntrie and Grew Famous Thereby

An olde woman that healed all deseases of cattell (for the which she neuer tooke any reward but a penny and a loafe) being seriously examined, by what words she brought these things to passe, confessed that after she had touched the sick creature, she alwaies departed immediately saying.

My loafe in my lap,
My penie in my purse:
Thou art neuer the better,
And I am neuer the worse.

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