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Of a deaf Iudge, a deaf plaintife, and a deaf defendant.
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Of a deaf Iudge, a deaf plaintife, and a deaf defendant.
By hap a man that could not hearethat borne was deafe by kinde,
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much like hymselfe to finde,
Whose hearyng sense was quight bereft:
the Iudge that of the case
Should giue his verdit, was as deafe
as deafest in the place.
To court they came: the plaintiffe praid
to haue his vnpaied rent:
Defendant said, in grindyng I
this werie night haue spent.
The Iudge beheld them both awhile,
is this (at last quoth he)
Of all your sturred strife the cause?
you both her children be.
And therefore her to helpe and ayde
looke that you both agree.
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