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 the other, the matter is not ſo much; ſhall only oblige yourſelf, when I have furniſhed you with money to do all you  named, and you have paid every one  owe a farthing to, to become obedient  me, and be diſpoſed of at my  Now the young man taking him for an Urſurer, and very rich, ſuppoſed this obligation was only a fetch to marry his daughter, or ſome kinſwoman of his, which  could be well contented to do, not doubting to have a good portion, and therefore ſcrupled not to do as he deſired. this he bid him meet him the next morning about the ſame time, when he would the writing ready; and on ſigning he  have the money. So they parted; and gentleman delayed not coming,  aſking advice, and was as punctually met, but when he ſaw the writing in blood,  was ſtartled a little; but the old man  him, it was only a whim of his own to  it ſo written to diſtinguiſh it from  men's, and put bis debtors more in  to repay the money he lent them. this ſpeech, and the gentleman's ſeeing ſtore of gold and ſilver brought by three  four of whom he ſuppoſed to be ſervants, he believed it. But how, ſaid he, ſhall write with the ſame? O, ſaid he, let me ſee, I'll prick your right vein; which he whilſt the gentleman found an  trembling, and an inward remorſe in