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 Mrs.Blague’s. However, she supp’d with her husband, when on a sudden somebody came on a feigned errand, and said, Her mother had taken ill, and desired to speak with her. He would have gone with her, but she put it off; and giving him the last kiss he ever was to receive from her, she left him, and coming where the chariot stood ready, she and Mrs. Blague got into it, and were conveyed into the King’s secret apartment, where they found him in his closet. He welcomed them, but it being late, Mrs. Blague departed, and they went to bed.

Mr. Shore, sitting up late, and his wife not returning, was very much troubled, and went to his mother- in-law’s, but they had not seen her, nor was her mother ill; so that her absence troubled the whole family. The next day was spent in seeking for her amongst her relations and friends, but found her not. Mrs. Blague protested she had not seen her and dropped some dissembling tears.