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 HISTORY

CHAP. I.

OOR Robin was born in Saffron-Walden, in the County of Essex, of honest plain parents who brought him up not as our nice dames do now-a-days, by directing him how much he should eat, but as the fashion was then, full fed with gross meats; so that in a few years he grew a sturdy lad; and, considering his growth and manners, a man might well say better fed than taught. His father being willing he should be able to live in