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 Marry, come up! I aure you, my dirty Couin! thof his Skin be o white, and to be ure, it is the mot whitet that ever was een, I am a Chritian as well as he, and no-body can ay that I am bae born, my grand-father was a Clergyman, and would have been very angry, I believe, to have thought any of his Family hould have taken up with Molly Seagrim’s dirty Leavings.’

Perhaps Sophia might have uffered her Maid to run on in this Manner, from wanting ufficient Spirits to top her Tongue, which the Reader may probably conjecture was no very eay Tak: For, certainly there were ome Paages in her Speech, which were far from being agreeable to the Lady. However, he now checked the Torrent, as there eemed no End of its Flowing. ‘I wonder,’ ays he, ‘at your Aurance in daring to talk thus of one of my Father’s Friends. As to the Wench, I order you never to mention