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 husband was almost distracted, and at last they concluded she was taken away by some courtier; and in three days after a lady informed them that she was with the King. This added more to their grief, and they kewknew [sic] not what course to take; they also knew if they went to cross the King, it would be their ruin,

They made inquiry indeed if it was, her voluntary act, and finding it was, and she quite unwilling to leave her new lover; so that Mr Shore, loosing all hopes of recovering her, grew melancholy, and sold off all that he had and went abroad, but having spent his fortune, he returned in a poor condition, when he practise clippling and filing gold coin to maintain himself; for which he suffered death in the latter end of Henry VII's reign.

Jane Shore having rendered up her chastity to the King, pleased with the glittering of a court, and endeared by a monarch's love, was admired by the vulgar, towards whom she be-