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 long study informed the lady, That under a laurel tree in the garden lay the treasure she sought for; but that she must not seek it till such a day and hour.-— The lady rewarded him with twenty guineas; but whether Carew mistook his calculation, or the lady mistook her lucky hour, we cannot tell; but truth obliges us to say the lady having dug below the root of the laurel tree, she could not find the treasure.

When he was farther initiated, he was consulted in important matters, and met with better success, ’generally giving satisfaction by his wise and sagatious answers.—In the mean time his parents sorrowed after him, as one that was no more, having advertised him in all the public papers, and sent messengers after him to almost every part of the kingdom; till about a year and a half afterwards, when Carew hearing of their grief, and being struck with tenderness thereat, repaired to his father’s house.—-He was so disgusted they did not know him, but when they did their joy was beyond expressing, tenderly embracing him, bedewing his cheeks with tears and kisses; and all his friends and neighbours shewed every demonstration of joy at