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                                       17 kind entertainment she gave him in her bed. O heavens said she, was it you! I beg you on my knees never to reveal it; for if you do, I am undone; for I                     thought you to be your fellow 'prentice, to whom I am married. No, said he, I'll be even with you now. The more he threatened to tell, the more she persuaded him to keep it secret, offering him any thing he would desire. Since you are so willing to have in conceal- ed, said he, I will take some pity on you, though you would not of me: Bring me                     down half a year's wages. She yielding to                     give him the money, but not to lie with him, as he had farther requested of her. When she found she could not prevail, she yielded also to lie with him; but shortly after she proved with child, and left her service, desiring him never to reveal it, which he promised never to do. In a month after she was gone, his mis- tress fell sick and died, and he out with his time within a fortnight thereafter. His master being still incensed against him, turned him out of doors that very day his time expired; so that Tom could not tell whether to go, nor what to do. Now his. best friend, and loving mistress, was dead, being ashamed to go near any of his relations.