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Jane Shore was the daughter of Mr Thomas Wainsted, a citizen of good repute, who lived in Cheapside, by trade a mercer. She being the only child of her parents, was brought up with all care and tenderness imaginable; not wanting any education that was thought necessary or proper for her; her natural temper, which was very airy, being joined to her education, and that degree of pride which, as it is natural, some make necessary for the female sex, helped to set her off to the best advantage. Fine feathers make fine birds; and if the birds are fine without them, doubtless they make them so doubly

This lovely woman was the delight