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 elf; upon the whole, he concluded the Maid had not been in her Bed, from the Time the Spoons were mis’d, he grew immediately jealous upon it, and upected, that the Maid upplied her Place with her Husband, during her Abence, and this was the Reaon why the Spoons were no ooner found.

She call’d to Mind everal Actions of Kindnes, her Husband had hewed the Maid, Things that pas’d unheeded by, when they happened, but now he had got that Tormentor, Jealouy, in her Head, amounted to Proofs of their Intimacy; another Circumtance which trengthen’d the whole, was, that tho’ her Husband knew he was to come Home that Day, and had had no Communication with her in four Months, which was before her lat Lying in, yet he took an Opportunity of going out of Town that Morning, upon ome light Pretence:All thee Things put together, confirm’d her in her Jealouy.

As Women eldom forgive Injuries of this Kind, he thought of dicharging her Revenge upon the Maid: In order to this, he leaves the Spoons where he found them, and orders the Maid to put clean Sheets upon the Bed, telling her, he intended to lye there herelf that Night, bccauebecauſe [sic] her Mother in Law was to lye in her Bed, and that he (the Maid) mut lye in another Part of the Houe; the Maid in making the Bed, was urprized with the Sight of the Spoons, but there were very good Reaons, why it was not proper for her to tell where he found them, therefore he takes them up, puts them in her Trunk, intending to leave them in ome Place, where they might be found by chance.

The Mitres, that every Thing might look to be done without Deign, lies that Night in the Maid’s Bed, little dreaming of what an Adventure it