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[ 15 ] deareſt Polly, for ſhe appears an angel in mine eves, but I am ſorry very ſorry to acquaint you that I am not a match for her. What child, ſays the old woman there's not a ſitter match in the world for my Polly: I did not think that your country could afford ſuch a clever youth as what I hear you to be, you ſmall neither want gold and ſilver, and good horſe t ride-upon, and when I die, you ſhall have my all: O but ſays Tom, thats no matter at all, the ſtop is this, when I was at home in Scotland, I got a ſtroke with horſes foot on the bottom of the belly, which has quite diſabled me below, that I cannot do a huſband's duty in bed. Then the old woman clapt her hands, and ell a crying, Oǃ if he had any other impediment but that, but thatǃ woful that, which gold and ſilver cannot purchaſe, and yet the pooreſt of people that are common beggars have plenty of it The old woman and her daughter ſat crying and wringing their hands, and Tom ſtood and wept, leſt he ſhould get no more money O ſays Polly, mother, I'll wed him nevertheleſs I love him dearly. No, no, you fooliſh girl, would you throw yourſelf away, to marry a man and die e maid, and don't know the end of your creation, it is the enjoyment of a man in bed, that makes women to marry, which is a pleaſure like paradiſe, and if you wed with this man you'll live and die and never know it. He, ho, ſays Tom if I had money, I needed not be this way till now. Money you fool ſays the old woman, there is not ſuch a thing to be got for money in all England, y ſays Tom, there's is a doctor in Newcaſtle will make me as able as any other man for ten guineas Ten gineas, ſaid ſhe, I'll give him fifty if he will, but here's twelve, and o directly and know firſt what he would do, and come directly again, and marry my child, or ſhe and I will die both for thy ſake. Tom having now got twelve