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frequently, 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 whiſky, 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 then ſets it in its place again. Home they came again, and the was as exceedingly diſtreſſed as a woman could be, and cry'd out, It was a horrid thing to take her out o' a houſe. The taylor ſeeing her ſo bad, thought the would have died, and ran as faſt as he could, and brought her a dram; but ſhe, in her hypocriſy, pretended ſhe could not take it, and deſired him to help her to her bed.-Into her bed he lays her; and be was not well gone, until ſhe fell to her bottle, taking two or three hearty gluts: then ſhe roars out Murder, for ſhe was poiſoned, ſhe was poiſoned! Backing and purging began, and the neighbours were called in; The leaves her blood on poor Leper, and tells how ſuch an honeſt woman brought her ae bottle as another was, done, and the murdering lown had ſtole it, and put in a bottle of poiſon inſtead of it.- Leper took to his heels, but was purſued and carried before a Juſtice of Peace, where he told what he had done, which made the Juſtice laugh heartily at the joke, and the taylor's wife was well purged, both from her feigned ſickneſs, lazineſs, and curſed ill-