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 give my Advice, I would have it put in a Baket, and ent out and laid at the Church-Warden’s Door. It is a good Night, only a little rainy and windy; and if it was well wrapt up, and put in a warm Baket, it is two to one but it lives ’till it is found in the Morning. But if it hould not, we have dicharged our Duty in taking proper care of it; and it is, perhaps, better for uch Creatures to die in a tate of Innocence, than to grow up and imitate their Mothers; for nothing better can be expected of them.’

There were ome Strokes in this Speech which, perhaps, would have offended Mr. Allworthy, had he trictly attended to it; but he had now got one of his Fingers into the Infant’s Hand, which by its gentle Preure, eeming to implore his Aitance, had certainly out-pleaded the Eloquence of Mrs. Deborah, had it been ten times greater than it was. He now gave Mrs. Deborah poitive Orders to take the Child to her own Bed, and to call up a Maid-ervant to provide it Pap and other things againt it waked. He likewie ordered that proper Clothes hould be procured for it early in the Morning, and that it hould be brought to himelf as oon as he was tirring.