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it is the enjoyment of a man in bed, that makes women to marry, which is a pleaſure like Paradiſe; and if you wed with this man, you'll live and die and never know it, Hoo, hoo,' ſays Tom, 'if I had got money, I needed not been this way till now,' 'money, you fool. ſaid the old woman, there's not ſuch a thing to be got for money in all England,'- 'Ay,' ſays Tom, there's a doctor in Newcaſtle, will make me as able as any other man for ten guineas' 'Ten guineas!' ſaid ſhe 'I'll give him 50 guineas if he will; but here is twelve, and go to him directly, and know firſt what he can do, and come again and wed my child, or ſhe and I will ſoon die both for thy sake.' Tom having now got twelve guineas more of their money, prepared for his journey, and early next morning ſet out for Newcaſtle; but inſtead of going to Newcaſtle; he came to old Scotland, and left Polly and her mother to think upon him. In about two weeks after, when he was not like to return, nor ſo much as to ſend them any word, the old woman and Polly got a horse, and came to Newcaſtle in ſearch of him, and went through all the Doctors' ſhops, aſking if there came a young man there about two weeks ago, with a broken--