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 Goody Brown and Mol Seagrim.’ ‘Who, who, cries Tom?’ but without waiting for an Anwer, having dicovered the Features of his Molly through all the Dicompoure in which they now were, he hatily alighted, turned his Hore looe, and leaping over the Wall, ran to her. She now, firt burting into Tears, told him how barbarouly he had been treated. Upon which, forgetting the Sex of Goody Brown, or perhaps not knowing it, in his Rage; for, in reality, he had no feminine Appearance, but a Petticoat, which he might not oberve, he gave her a Lah or two with his Horewhip; and then flying at the Mob, who were all accued by Molly, he dealt his Blows o profuely on all Sides, that unles I would again invoke the Mue, (which the good-natured Reader may think a little too hard upon her, as he hath o lately been violently weated) it would be impoible for me to recount the Horewhipping of that Day.

Having coured the whole Coat of the Enemy, as well as any of Homer’s Heroes ever did, or as Don Quixotte, or any Knight Errand in the World could have done, he returned to Molly, whom he found in a Condition, which mut give both me and