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22 a yard of scarlet ribbon to wear under the chin that day, desiring 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 lend 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 him; so one lent him five pounds, some more, some less, accordingly as they had; and when he had got what money he could, he returned to bed.



The next morning, rising very early, he denied his landlady to dress herself to be married, which she did, and went directly