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 CHAP. V. He is put Apprentice to a Merchant, and leaves Lucinda.

HE father of young Aurelius having received an exact account of what happened, and fearing those lovers might study some revenge to repair all this disgrace as likewise to prevent any amours which might happen between him and Lucinda, to whom he was not willing he should be married, took an opportunity to discourse with him putting him in a way which might render him capable of living creditably in the world; when finding him pliable, he told him, it was his pleasure he should go to London, and there go apprentice to some honourable calling, whereby he might be comfortable to him, and bid him chuse what profession he liked.

He had not long considered, before he replied, that seeing it was his pleasure, he