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 consented, and for the desire he had of seeing strange countries, he could like to be a merchant.

To this the old man agreeing, he was soon after sent to London, and placed to a Turkey merchant upon London Bridge On his departure he wrote the following Lines to Lucinda:

"Pardon, thou most beauteous maid, if love has not yet made a conquest over me.——That you deserve what love can bestow, I must confess; but I, alas must go and wander through the world, ere I can love. Then be contended, and never weep for your well wisher,

"AURELIUS"

This flat denial made the fair Lucinda shed many a tear, and bewail her hard fortune in loving where she was not rapid; but soon after a rich farmer's son offering his service to her, she having with much struggling, overcome all former love and affections, changed her passion, and sacrificed her virginity the pleasure of her new lover; where revelling in excess of joy, we will leave them and follow Aurelius. CHAP.