Chap-books of the eighteenth century . Simon had to take a basket of eggs to market, but findingthat two butter women had fallen out, and to that Simple Simons Misforttmes. 261 that they had taken one another by the quoif, their hair andtheir fillets flying about their ears, he essayed to part them,but got pushed down, and his eggs were all broken. Theconstable, coming up, thought they were drunk, and clappedthem in the stocks, where, being between the combatants, hehad to endure their scolding. On his release he went home,only to endure his customary beating. So he lay all nightin th
Chap-books of the eighteenth century . Simon had to take a basket of eggs to market, but findingthat two butter women had fallen out, and to that Simple Simons Misforttmes. 261 that they had taken one another by the quoif, their hair andtheir fillets flying about their ears, he essayed to part them,but got pushed down, and his eggs were all broken. Theconstable, coming up, thought they were drunk, and clappedthem in the stocks, where, being between the combatants, hehad to endure their scolding. On his release he went home,only to endure his customary beating. So he lay all nightin the hog-stye, and on the morrow, in the presence of someof his dearest friends he begged pardon on his knees, of hissweet wife Margery.
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