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17 CHAP. IX.

Pretty Bessy rides behind the Knight to her father's house, where the beggar drops angels with the knight's uncle.

OUR beautiful virgin met her courteous knight at the appointed time, and relying on his fidelity, she got up behind him.

But scarce were they out of town, before the knight's uncle went to the inn, and missing them there, suspected to be true what had been told him, and followed them, to prevent the match ; as did likewise the young men who were smitten with her to take her from the