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 ( 15 ) deareſt Polly, for the appears an angel in mine eyes, but I am ſorry, very ſorry to acquaint you that I om not a match for her. What child, fays the old woman there's not a fitter 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 ſhall neither want gold and ſilver, and a good horſe to ride upon, and when I die you ſhall have my all; O but ſays Tom, that's no matter at all, the flop is this, when I was at home in Scotland, I get ſtroke with a horſe's foot on the bottom of the belly which has quite diſabled gre below this I cannot do a huſband's duty in bed. Then the old woman clapt her hands and fell a crying, Or if he had any other impediment but that, but that I woe- ful that, which gold and ſilver cannot purchase, and yet the pooreſt of people that are common beg- gars have plenty of it. The old woman and her. daughter of crying and wringing their hands and Tom food and wept let be ſhould get no more money, ſays Polly mother, I'll wed him never- theleſs, I love him dearly. No, no, you fooliſh girl, would you throw yourſelf away, to marry a man and die a maid, and don't know the end of your creation, it is the enjoyment of a man in bed that makes a woman to marry, which is a pleaſure like paradiſe, and if you wed with this man you'll live and die, and never know it, Ho 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. Ay lays Tom, there's a doctor in New- caſtle will make me, as able as any other man for ten guineas Ten guineas, ſaid ſhe, I'll give him fifty if he will, but here's twelve, and go directly and know firſt what he would do, and com directly again, and marry my child, or ſhe and I will die both for thy fake. Tom having now got twelve