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 Comical Tranfaftions of Lothian Tom.19 ‘ girl, would you throw yourfelf away, to ‘ marry a man and die a maid, you don’t ‘ know the end of your creation, it is the en- ‘ joyment of a man in bed, that makes wo- ‘ men to marry, which is a pleafure like pa- ‘ radife, and if you wed with this man, you ‘ will live and die and never know it.'Hoo, ‘ hoo,' fays Tom,' If I had got money, I ‘ needed not been this way till now :' ‘ Mo- ‘ ney, you fool,' faid the old woman, ' there ‘ is not fuch a thing to be got for money in all ‘ England;’ ‘ Ay,’ fays Tom,' there’s a doc- ‘ tor in Newcaftle, will make me as able as a ‘ ny other man for 10 guineas,’ 10 guineas,’ faid fhe, ‘ I’ll give him 50 guineas if he will, ‘ but here is 12, and go to him directly, and ‘ know firft what he can do, and come again ‘ and wed my child, or fhe and I will die both ‘ for thy fake.‘ Tom, having now got 12 guineas more of their money, got all things ready, and next morning early, fet out for Newcaftle, but inftead of going to Newcaf- tle, he came to old Scotland, and left Polly and her mother to think upon him, then in about two weeks after, when he was nor like to return, no, nor fo much as a word from him, the old woman and Polly got a horfe, and came to Newcaftle in fearch of him, went through all the doctors’ fhops, afking if there came a young man there about two weeks ago, with a broken cock to mend; fome laughed at her, others were like to kick her out of doors, fo they had to return