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TWO CHILDREN in the WOOD.

How Pisaurus seeking a wife, accidently fell in love with fair Eugenia.

N times past, there was a gentleman named Pisaurus, rich he was and endowed with those qualities that rendered him accomplished, wanting nothing to complete his earthly felicity, but a virtuous wife, by whom he might have children to heir his possessions, when the cold hand of death should seal his eyes, and such a one he sought for; but for a long time he found his enquiry vain, or at least his fancy would not admit him to like any but the beautiful Eugenia, who in some sense might be destined for him, and whom as he  was riding to take pleasure, he espied