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 15 log with a bell, living on the charity of good people; my mother is a woman that pins for her bread. These are my pa- rents, and I will not marry without their a pnsent. This struck our gallants as mute as a mouse; after which, they scrupled to be- eve that such homespun people could be the parents of such a charming maid; jut when she gave them an account of her leaving them, they began to scratch Their noddles, stamp on the ground, and raw in their horns faster than they put hem out. The merchant, gentleman, and kankeeper, declaring, if it was so, she was o wife for them; but the knight, who who had a good estate, and did not stand o much for interest, as the pleasing of his fancy, after he had paused a little, dook the little maid by the hand, and said, ou see, my dearest, how those who ourted you in hopes of a fortune, are branished, now they find their mistake ; will you yield to one more constant? kou shall, without delay, be sole mis- tress of my heart. Which she answer-