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ER father perceiving that unless he took some speedy course, her great stock of Beauty would be her ruin, resolved to marry her, so that having surrendered her virginity, and being in the arms of ofof [sic] a husband, those that sought to crop her virgin rose, would not regard her, but give over their pursuit.

And among those that courted, and earnestly sought her in way of marriage, was one Matthew Shore, a rich goldsmith in Lombard Street, whom her father pitched upon as a right husband, and acquainted his fair daughter with his intention to marry her to him, but she appeared very averse to it, alledging sometimes disproportion of years, his being above thirty; and at other times his being much disfigured with the small-pox, and many other exceptions she made. However, her father's positive commands, and the rich presents her lover made her, won her consent, or seemingly she yeilded [sic] to the match, and so married they were, in great pomp, many of the court, as well as the city, being invited to the wedding, which was kept with great feasting many days.