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man, sent for him to an ale house, and drank with him very heartily, and told him he was sadly borne down by a spirit of jealousy against his wife : and a saepi- cion of her being too free with a servant he had before'; and if he would keep it secret and learn him to find it out, he would give his mother a load of meal, to which Leper agreed ; so he gave the poor supposed cuckold instructions how to be- have. So home he goes and feigns him- self very sick, and every day worse and worse, taking death to him; blesses his three small children, and charges his wife not to marry until his children could do something for themselves. This hypo- critical woman takes a crying, Aha! mar- ry, she would never marry! no, no, there shall never a man lye by my wide, or kiss my lips after thee, my an deer lamb John- ny. Then he arts to deal man as well as he possibly could ; the neighbours are called in, and he's fairly o'ersven, as the bid saying is, before good neighbours. The sorrowful-widow made sad lament, wrung her hands and cure her hair. The reverend women about, began to dress the corpse, asked her for a shirt: Ay, ay. said she be has twa tes linen sarks, and