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 not prevailing, and her patience ſpent, the ſaid, “I never injured any of you, but have ſtrove to do you all the good offices which I was capable of doing: why then do you envy and abuſe me? What if my parents are in a mean ſtation, yet they pay for my education of dancing and ſinging, which they beſtow upon me; and though perhaps I am not ſo well deſcended as ſome of you, though you may be miſtaken; yet Heaven might have made your caſe the ſame, had it thought fit." Yet finding that they did not ceaſe to rail at her, and being by this time about fifteen years of age, ſhe prevailed with her parents to grant her leave to ſeek her fortune.

How handſome Betty took Leave of her Parents, and the Entertainment ſhe met with.

OW the time of Betty's departure being come, her parents furniſhed her with cloaths and other neceſſaries, whereupon ſhe fell upon her knees and craved their bleſſing, which being