A Scholar traveyling, and having noe money, call’d at an Alehouse, and ask’d for a penny loafe, then gave his hostesse it againe, for a pot of ale; and having drunke it of, was going away. The woman demanded a penny of him. For what? saies he. Shee answers, for y^e ale. Quoth hee, I gave you y^e loafe for it. Then, said she, pay for y^e loafe. Quoth hee, had you it not againe? which put y^e woman to a non plus, that y^e scholar went free away.

— John Ashton, Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century, 1883