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88 However, at lat he revived; but the Shock was o great, that it entirely deprived her of her Speech.

Thus loaded with Miery, and unable to bear the Slights and Didain of thoe who had formerly profeed themelves Friends, this unhappy Family retired into a Country, where they were unknown, in order to hide themelves from the World; when, to upport their Independency, the Father laboured as well as he could at Hubandry, and the Mother and Daughter ometimes got pinning and knitting Work, to help to furnih the Means of Subitence; which however was o precarious and uncertain, that they often, for many Weeks together, lived on nothing but Cabbage and Bread boiled in Water. But God never foraketh the Righteous, nor uffereth thoe to perih