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 him that gave it. No, I won’t give it up neither, becaue that will pleae ome Folks. No, I’ll buy the gayet Gown I can get, and dance over the old Curmudgeon’s Grave in it. This is my Reward for taking his Part o often, when all the Country have cried Shame of him for breeding up his Batard in that Manner; but he is going now where he mut pay for all. It would have becomed him better to have repented of his Sins on his Death-bed, than to glory in them, and give away his Etate out of his own Family to a mi-begotten Child. Found in his Bed, forooth! A pretty Story! Ay, ay, thoe that hide know where to find. Lord forgive him, I warrant he hath many more Batards to anwer for, if the Truth was known. One Comfort is, they will be all known where he is a going now. “The Servants will find ome Token to remember me by.” Thoe were the very Words, I hall never forget them, if I was to live a thouand Years. Ay, ay, I hall remember you for huddling me among the Servants. One would have thought he might have mentioned my Name as well as that of Square; but he is a Gentleman forooth, though