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 17 away fhe comes : The child cries, and the bell’s rung, the landlord was ready enough to anfwer. O fir, faid the dro- ver, call her back, for this will ruin my family, and crack my credit; but fir, faid the girl, you thought nothing to ruin my character and crack, my maidenhead. Peace, peace, faid he, my dear, here’s one hundred and fif- ty pounds, and take away the child and trouble me no more. Well, faid fhe, I will take it, and you’ll make more of buying cows than maiden- heads ; fo away fhe came with the money and returned the borrowed child to its own mother. Three merry companions having met on a Saturday night at an ale- houfe, (a hatter, a fhoe-maker, and a tailor) where they drank heartly all that night, and to morrow until mid- day : and their beats were who had the lovingeft wife. So they agreed for a trial of their good nature, that every man fhould do whatever his wife bid him do as foon as ever he went home; who did not as fhe ordered him was to pay all the reckoning, which