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19 should have my daughter, and God’s blessing and mine light on you both. I waith cham of good exclamation amongst all my neighbours, and they will as zoon ask my vize for any thing. Zo thick I will agree. You shall have her with a very good will, because we hear a very good commendation of you in every place, therefore besides think I will give twenty marks and a weaning calf that is a year old, and when I and my wife die, then you shall have the revolution of our goods.



But Jack made more reckoning of his wife’s modesty and virtue, than the father’s proffers; to be married her, and made a sumptuous wedding; and instead of accepting the old man’s twenty marks,