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Epi. 50.

[A Proctour was t'examine in the Court]

A Proctour was t'examine in the Court
A wench. And he, disposed to make sport,
Did aske the maid, what he should call her name.
Why, maid (quoth she) or else it were great shame.
Pray, speake aduised, quoth this gibing clearke;
You must take Oath of it, and therefore marke.
The wench, selfe-guilty, to him blushing said,
Pray stile me single woman, leaue out maid.