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 nary Kind, was attended with ome mall Inconveniencies: For as it is not to be wondered at, that a young Woman o well accomplihed hould have little Relih for the Society of thoe whom Fortune had made her Equals, but whom Education had redered o much her Inferiors; o is it Matter of no greater Atonihment, that this Superiority in Jenny, together with that Behaviour which is its certain Conequence, hould produce among the others ome little Envy and Ill-will towards her; and thee had perhaps ecretly burnt in the Booms of her Neighbours, ever ince her Return from her Service.

Their Envy did not however diplay itelf openly, till poor Jenny, to the Surprize of every Body, and to the Vexation of all the young Women in thee Parts, had publickly hone forth on a Sunday in a new Silk Gown, with a laced Cap, and other proper Appendages to thee.

The Flame, which had before lain in Embrio, now burt forth. Jenny had, by her Learning, encreaed her own Pride, which none of her Neighbours were kind enough to feed with the Honour he eemed to demand; and now, intead of Repect