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 marry me as soon as he came to age, he prevailed upon me to surrender my virginity up to him, and to use me whensoever he pleased; but scarce a year had expired before that his youngest brother pretended love also in such an open and honest manner, insomuch that all the family took notice of it. How I should make a wife to him, and at the same time be a whore to the eldest brother, I could not tell without being ruined; as loving the former to extremity, being with child by him, but in short, there happening such disputes, between the two brothers, it had like to have driven me from the family, but the eldest brother consented I should marry the youngest, as not caring to marry me himself, behold, I privately wedded him, who the first night he came so drunk to my bed, that I easily persuaded him he had done what his eldest brother had done before him.

In two years after he died, leaving me with two, children, who were taken care of by his parents, and having then a tolerable good fortune in my own hands, I married a Draper, who soon was forced from me for debt into France which obliged me to a lodging inn.