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 13 f great worth beat off those little assail- lints, and laid close siege, as will appear in the next chapter. CHAP. VII. pretty Bessy, living at an inn in Rumford is courted by several persons of good birth and fortune. IT being secretly whispered that pretty Bessy must be more than she seemed, nade her reputation higher, insomuch, hat the innkeeper's son, a London mer- thant, a gentleman of good estate, and a ich knight all courted her favour; to whose importunities she urged the mean- hess of her birth, and inequality of her fortune, desiring them to desist from their undertakings. This modest objection of her's, excited further imaginations of the worth of her parentage, and added more fuel to the fire--So easy are men to believe the things they would have. Insomuch that they began to renew their addresses by offering her jewels, rings, &c. which she refused, on account of her charact- er, and therefore, she reoolved to discover her parents, and that way to try the sin-