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 so that her husband was almost distracted, and at last, they concluded she was taken away 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 knew lover, and left all hope of 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 VII's reign.

Jane Shore having rendered up her chastity to the King pleased with the glittering of a court, and endeared by a monarch's love, was admired by the vulgar, towards whom she