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5 using him fo once or twice a week, made him ſtudy how to prevent it: Sore moring ſhe coming up to his bed side in a great rage, fell upon him; but he leaped aut of bed, crying, infomuch that the tears run down his cheeks. Then the returning very eagerly to ſtrike him again, he took up the forelappet of his ſhirt, and wiped his eyes, which when ſhe beheld, fhe forebore to ſtrike him, turning her back upon him and ſo departed out of the room bluſhing: and never after that would he call Tom up

But he, not being contented with what he had already done, ſoon contrived a way to be revenged on her; for he imagined ſhe kept company with young gallants, un known to her huſband, and therefore reſolved to find her out, if poſſible. Tom watching an opportunity, one day, in the middle of the week, ſaw her warming a clean ſmock, which was not uſual, he than began to apprehend ſhe was to meet a gallant abroad. So after ſhe bad dreſsed herſelf, and gone out, Tom following her, till at length ſhe entered into a noted ſchool of Venus, where none but the fans of Venus were practitioners, who had cach a rich wrought bed for a ſtudy and daughter of Venus for a book: which is according to the poet, who faith,

A woman is a book, and oftea found To prove far better in ſheats than bound;