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 21           and wept lest he should get no more mo- ney. O said Polly, mother, I'll wed him nevertheless, I love him so dearly! No           vou 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 plea- sure like Paradise, and if you wed this man you will live and die, and never feel it. Hoo, Hoo, says Tom, if l had got money, I needed not been this way till now. Money you fool, said the old wo- man, 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 gui- neas. 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 gui- neas 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