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The child crying very much, the woman took the cabbage and warused, and then fed the babe with, who ever since bath loved cabbage beyond meaſure.

CHAP. II.

Shewicg in what mar ner Tom was brought up Of his being bound an apprentice How, by a mad prank, he lay with his miſtreſs; How his maſter catched him in bed with her; Likewise how he had him before the chamberlain for it, and how by a jeſt he was freed.

IN a few years Tom's mother married again and lived very happy, put him to ſchool and there maintained him until Rey he was big enough to be an apprentice; then his mother bade him make choice of blog what handicraft he would; Tom thought a better opportunity of choosing a trade, in which he could get plenty of his favourite diſh of cabbage, never offered he therefore made choice of a tailor. His mother ſoon got him a master, whoſe name was Mr Deceitful, who had a ſevere wife to ſervants, and Tom being more addicted to waggery than ordinary, ſhe was the more ſevere on him; for every morning, if he lay in bed after five o'clock fne would go up, with a cudgel in her hand, and pull om out of bed, and beat him like a ſtock-fiſh. She