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14 sincerity of their affections, and she accordingly did so.

CHAP. VIII.

Pretty Bessy declares her parents,--and loses all her lovers but one.

OUR beautiful virgin being pressed for love and enjoyment, found herself obliged to take a course to get rid of her lovers, or allot one of them to her share. Therefore she told them that she was not at her own disposal, and if they all loved her as sincerely as they pretended, she was contented her father should choose one for her, and whose choice should be hers.

This made them eager to know to whose share she should fall, and therefore desired her to inform them where her father lived.

My parents, worthy sirs, says she, live on Bethnal Green ; my father is led by a