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 While others labour, ſweat, and toil, His tongue does get him pelf; He travels with his dog and bell, And brings home ſtore of wealth.

He being by this time in a warm condition, to add further to his joy, his loving wife fell in labour, and was delivered of a daughter, whoſe birth made him think he was the happieſt man alive. An hundred times he kiſſed her, and dandled her in his arms, whom he Chriſtened by the name of Elizabeth, and as ſhe increaſed in years, ſo her beauty and modeſty cauſed her to be called pretty Betty: Some began to dote upon her admirable perfection, and the better to qualify her, gave her ſuch learning as was ſuitable to her degree, which ſhe improved; ſo that her beauty and wit, her ſkill in ſinging, dancing, and playing upon inſtruments of muſic, procured her the envy of the young maidens thereabouts; who ſuppoſed themſelves much ſuperior in birth and fortune, would often reflect upon her birth, and call her a beggar's brate. She bore all their ill language without returning it; and endeavoured to win them to her by gentle perſuaſions: But