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 have any thing more to ay to you. Which reolution the Doctor finding himelf unable to alter, he put on her cloaths with all the hate he could, and taking a hore, which he had bought a few days before, hatened intantly out of the town, and made the bet of her way, thro’ bye-roads and acros the country, into omerethire, milling Exeter, and every other great town which lay in the road.

And well it was for her, that he ued both this hate and precaution: For Mr. Ivythorn having heard his daughter's tory, immediately obtained a warrant from a jutice of peace, with which he preently dipatch’d the proper officers; and not only o, but et forward himelf to Exeter, in order to try if he could learn any news of his on-in-law, or apprehend her there; till after much earch being unable to hear any tidings of her, he was obliged to et down contented with his misfortune, as was his poor daughter to ubmit to all the ill-natured neers of her own ex, who were often witty at her expence, and at the expence of their own decency.

The Doctor having ecaped, arrived afe at Wells in omerethire, where thinking herelf at a afe ditance from her puruers, he again at herelf down in quet of new adventures.

She had not been long in this city, before he became acquainted with one Mary Price, a girl of about eighteen years of age, and of extraordinary beauty. With this girl, hath this wicked woman ince her confinement declared, he was really as much in love, as it was poible for a man ever to be with one of her own ex.

The firt opportunity our Doctor obtain’d of convering cloely with this new mitres, was at a dancing