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 16                    'prentice were married, sometimes missing him in the night, yet never suspected any thing but only that he rose out of his bed; so now he resolved to watch him, and afterwarded slept as 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 sleep- ing powder into his fellow 'prentice's                    drink, to make him sleep sound; and about one o'clock, the same hour he used to rise, he jugged him, that he might know if he was asleep. Tom perceiving he was asleep, arose, and went to his fellow 'pren- tice's wife, but resolved, if she spoke, on- ly to whisper, she, 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, she received him into her arms, embracing him very lovingly, there remaining two hours, enjoying his heart's delight, then with a parting kiss, he bid 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 drank, and the