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22 a yard of ſcarlet ribbon to wear under the chin that day, defiring every one in particular to meet him the next morning, at eight o'clock exactly, and then to go and be married, to which they all agreed But yet he requeſted one thing of every one of them, and that was, to ſend him all the money they could; for he had, as he feigned, laid all his money out to buy a bargain of clothes with. They believed hims ſo one lent him five pounds, ſome more, ſome leſs, according as they had; and when he bad got all the money be could he returned to bed.

The next morning riſing very early, he desired his landlady to dreſs herſelf to be married, which the did, and went directly to the place appointed. After ſhe was gone, Tom rode out of town in great haſte; but not to meet his landlady and the reſt of his miſtreſses, as he had promiſed: but before he went, he wrote theſe following lines, and left them under his landlady's pillow.

Farewel, old hoſteſs, my ſmooth flattering tongue,

Hath prov'd too old for you, tho'I am but young;

You thought you had me ſure, and that this night,