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 another proclamation to the same effect, and thus she wandered up and down in as poor and miserable a sitution as before; till growing old, and utterly friendless, she finished her life in a ditch, which was from that time called Shore's Ditch, adjoining to Bishopsgate Street.

Thus you may see the rise and fall of this once stately and then unhappy woman, with whose dying lamentation we shall conclude.

Good People, by the rigour of the law you are forbid to give me any relief, yet you may pity my unhappy state; for the scripture saith, 'That to the miserable pity should be shewh.' I am now putting a period to a miserable life. a life that I have long been weary of What! would I desire to live in the spendour, pomp, and