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EPER'S Landlady became very harſh to his Ma-ſter, and very often abuſed him exceeding ſore with both tongue and hands, and always chided upon him for more money, and to have all the money in her keeping, which Leper was very ſorry for. It ſo happened on a day, after the Taylor had got a hearty drubbing with tongue and tongs, that he pouch’d his thimble, and was going to make a Queen of her ? when ſhe ſaw that, ſhe cried out, ‘ O will ye leave ‘ me, a poor tender, dying woman !’ But Leper know-ing the cauſe of her curſed ill-nature better his Mafter did, adviſed him to take her on a fine day, like a mile out of town, and give her a walk, and he would ſtay at home, and ſtudy a remedy for her diſ-order.Away they both goes, but as ſhe was al-ways complaining of her health, and that ſhe was very weak, ſhe cry’d out frequently, ‘ O it is a crying ſin ‘ to take a woman in my condition out o’er a door.’ During their abſence, Leper goes and ſearches her bed, and below the bolſter he gets a bottle of rare whiſkey, of which he takes a hearty pull, and then piſſes in it to make it up again, gets a halfpenny worth of ſnuff and puts it in alſo; ſhakes all together, and ſo ſets it in its place again. Home they came again, and ſhe was exceedingly distreſſed as a woman could be, and cry’d out, ‘ It was a horrid thing to take her out of a ‘houſe?’ The Taylor ſeeing her ſo bad, thought ſhe would have died, and ran as faſt as he could and brought her a dram, but ſhe in her hypocriſy pretend-ed ſhe could not take it, and called him to help her to her bed. Into her bed be lays her, and he was not well gone until ſhe fell to her bottle, taking two or three hearty gluts, then ſhe roars out murder, for ſhe was poiſened, ſhe was poiſoned. Bocking and purg-