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12 if more than an hundred perons were laughing together, but nothing was een. CHAP. V.

How Urula married a young Man named Tobias Shipton; and how trangely he dicovered a Thief.

OUR Urula was now arrived at the four and twentieth year of her age and though he was none of the prettiet maids in the town, as you may remember by her defcription, yet he longed for a huband as well as the bet of them, and at lat obtained her deire för whether he ued any love powder or charms to enamour her, or whether the hopes of getting a little money, which he was reported to have, though no body could tell how he got it, caued him to court her, as there are ome men that would not only marry the devil's daughter, but his dam too for money, I cannot certainly inform the reader; but a weetheart he had, named Tobias Shipton, by trade a carpenter, to whom he was hortly after married, and very comfortably they lived together, but never had any children. It happened