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and wept lest he should get no more money. O said Polly, mother, I'll wed him nevertheless, I love him so dearly!. No you foolish girl, said her mother, would you marry a man and die a maid? You don't know the end of your creation; it is the enjoyment of a man in bed, that makes women to marry, which is a pleasure like Paradise, and if you wed this man you will live and die, and never feel 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 fifty guineas if he will, but here is twelve and go to him directly, and see what he can do, and then come again and wed my child or she and I will both die for thy sake. Tom having now got twelve guineas more of their money, got all things ready, and early next morning, set out for Newcastle, but instead of going there he came to old Scotland, and left Polly and her mother to think upon him. In about two weeks thereafter, when he was not like to return, nor so much as any word from him, the old woman and