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16 huſband was almost diſtracted and at laſt they concluded ſhe was taken awry by ſome courtier; and in three days after a lady informed them that ſhe was with the King. This added more to their grief, they knew not what courſe to take; and they 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 recovering her, so that Mr Shore growing melancholy, ſold off all he had and went abroad, but having ſpent his fortune, he returned in a poor condition, he practiſed clipping and filing gold coin to maintain himſelf; for which he ſuffered death in the latter end of Henry VIII’s reign.

Jane Shore having rendered up her chaſtity to the King, pleased with the glitieaingglittering [sic] of a court, and endeared by a monarch’s love, was admired