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Yet he must be cut off in the flower of his days.

It is an awful thing!

Ah! but a youth, and a goodly-looking youth too, I warrant ye.

Alack a-day! many a one falls into crimes, but all do not pay the forfeit.

Ha! who comes this way so fair and so gentle in her mein; thus toss'd and tangled amidst the pressing crowd, like a stalk of wild flower in a bed of nettles? Come, clear the way there, and let the lady pass.

I'm much obliged to you.

We thank you, good Sirs! My mistress and I are both strangers in this town, and the nearest way to your best inn, as we are told, is thro' this