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 20 he ſhould get no more money. O mother ſays the daughter, I'll wed with him never- theleſs, I love him ſo dearly! No, no, you fooliſh girl, would you throw yourſelf away, to marry a man and die a maid; you don't know the end of your creation, it is the enjoyment of a man in bed, that makes women to marry, which is the greateſt plea: ſure in life, and if you wed with this man, you'll live and die, and never know it. Hoo, hoo, ſays Tom, if I had got money I needed not have been this way till now Money, you fool ſaid the old woman, there's not ſuch a thing to be got for money in all England. Ay, ſays Tom, there's a Doctor in Newcaſtle, will make me as able as any other man for ten guineas. I'en guineas ſaid ſhe, I'll give him fifty guineas if he will. but here is twelve, and go to him directly and know firſt what he can do, and ther come again and wed my child, or ſhe and ! will die both for thy fake-Tom. Having now got twelve guineas more of their money: made all things ready, and next morning car ly ſet out for Newcaſtle, but inſtead of going to Newcaſtle, he came to old Scotland, and left Polly and her mother to think on him. In about two weeks after, when he was not like to return, no, nor ſo much a a word from his the old woman and her daughter got a horſe and came to Newcaſtle in ſearch of him, and