RECONCILING THE FATHERS.

A Dean of Gloucester having some merry divines at dinner with him one

day, amongst other discourses they were talking of reconciling the

Fathers on some points; he told them he could show them the best way in

the world to reconcile them on all points of difference; so, after

dinner, he carried them into his study, and showed them all the

Fathers, classically ordered, with a quart of sack betwixt each of them.

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