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 ged it gladly, he forcedly,. At length riſing from her chair, methinks, ſays ſhe, we are all merry only that gentleman at the lower end of the table is melancholy, but I know the cauſe, it is perhaps becauſe he is placed ſo low: but it that be his diſeaſe. I have got for it a preſent remedy : when walking to him where he ſat, ſhe deſired him to remove for ſhe had another place for him. He intreated her not to torment him any farther, refuſed to riſe, but ſhe wouldnt. enforce him. the reſt likewiſe perſauded, as wondering what farther ſport ſhe would make him. Well ſaid he I am yours to day, but will be my own ever hereafter, and ſo being drawn by her to the upper end of the room, like a bear to the ſtake, where her huſband's chair ſtood empty: now ſirs ſays ſhe, with a more ſerious countenance than before, my new husband, ſit there in my old huſband's chair and bid take your gueſts welcome; ſtill he fretted, and they laughed as before, then ſhe craved pardon for ſo abuſing his patience only proteſted that this meeting was purely for his ſake, and to make them wittneſſes of their Preſent contract ; for if he refuſed her to wife ſhe vowed never to wed another huſband acknowledging that all her fortune next to divine providence came by his goodneſs, omitting the former circumſtanceſ and that ſhe knew no better way to expreſ her gratitude, than to confer them on him by whom they firſt came. They were contracted, the ſuitors wintneſſes, and after married.

Thus ends as famous and entertaining a hiſ- tory as ever was publiſhed in ſo ſmall a volume.

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