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16 prentice were married, ſometimes miſsing him in the night, yet never ſuſpected anything, but only that he role out of his bed, ſo now he reſolved to watch him, and afterwards flee pas dogs ſleep for three or four nights together, and obſerved him conſtantly to go to her; But one night when they were at ſupper, Tom put ſleeping powder into his fellow 'prentice's drink, to make him ſleep found and about one o'clock the ſame hour he uſed to riſe he jogged him, that he might know it he was aſleep. Tom, perceiving he was asleep, aroſe, and went to his fellow 'prentice's wife, put reſolved, if ſhe ſpoke, only to whiſper, the lying awake ready to receive him. When ſhe heard him ſhe desired him to drink that pint of ſack, thinking Tom to be her husband: ſo when he had drank it, the received him to her arms, embracing him very lovingly, there remaining two hours, enjoying is bear's delight, then, with a parting kiſs, be bade her adieu.

Tom coming to his own bed, he found his fellow 'prentice faſt asleep as he left him. In the morning about six o'clock, Tom aroſe, leaving him asleep, and went down, the ſuppoſed maid being up, to thank her for the ſack he drunk, and the