To cheat ven I can,
Yet for all that I be
A very goot man.

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To see a haymaker using of rakes, is no news;
But to see a bear making plum cakes, is strange indeed!


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What I have got in the pan,
I shall eat if I can,
And this cake on the shelf,
I shall keep for myself.

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To see a barrel made by a cooper, is no news,
But to see a goat act the part of a trooper, is strange indeed!


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Hur will fight hur foes
For the honour of Wales,
And if the French come,
They shall turn their tails.