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 for them. I told my Lady, ays I, Madam, Your La’hip is encourage Idlenes—’ ‘And was my Sophia o good?’ ays Jones,—‘My Sophia! I aure you, marry come up,’ anwered Honour. ‘And yet if you knew all.—Indeed, if I was as Mr. Jones, I hould look a little higher than uch Trumpery as Molly Seagrim.’ ‘What do you mean by thee Words,’ replied Jones, ‘If I knew all?’ ‘I mean what I mean,’ ays Honour. ‘Don’t you remember putting your Hands in my Lady’s Muff once? I vow I could almot find in my Heart to tell, if I was certain my Lady would never come to the Hearing on’t.’—Jones then made everal olemn Protetations. And Honour proceeded—‘then, to be ure, my Lady gave me that muff; and afterwards, upon hearing what you had done—’ ‘Then you told her what I had done!’ interrupted Jones. ‘If I did, Sir,’ anwered he, ‘you need not be angry with me. Many’s the Man would have given his Head to have had my Lady told, if they had known—for, to be ure, the bigget Lord in the Land might be proud—but, I protet, I have a great Mind not to tell you. Jones fell to Entreaties, and oon prevailed on her to go on thus. ‘You mut know then, Sir,