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18 tions, he having proved ſo very ungrateful to them in his apprenticeſhip.

CHAP. IV

Shewing how Tom forſook London; his Lamentation at his departure; of his being entertained by an old woman, who was very rich, in Leeds, in Yorkſhire; Likewiſe how he promiſed to marry her and sixteen maids in one Day, whom he got with child, in sixteen weeks; Laſtly how he appointed them all to meet him at a particular place; and how he deceived them, and left the town.

SOON after Tom's dear miſtreſs was dead being almoſt in despair, he reſolved to take a ramble into the country, hoping to find ſome employment there. In order to which, he provided what neceſsaries he ſtood in need of, and then he let forward on his journey. And when he was about a mile from London, in a pleaſant field, upon a green bank, on a bright funſhining day, he ſat down and made this ſad lamentation

O Fortune frown no more as thou haſt done, But let theyj oys ſhine bright, as doth the ſun,