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 5                    up to his bed-side in a great sage, fell upon him; but he leaped out of bed crying, insomuch that the tears ran down his cheeks. Then she returning very eagerly to strike him again, he took up                    the forelappet of his shirt, and wiped his eyes, which, when she beheld, she forbore to strike him, turning her back upon him, and so departed out of the room blushing, and never after that would she 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 re- solved 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 then began to apprehend she was to meet a gal- lant abroad: so after she had dressed her- self, and gone out, Tom following her, till at length she entered into a noted school of Venus, where none but the sons of Venus were practitioners, who had each a rich wrought bed for a study, and a                    daughter of Venus for a book, which is                     according to the poet, who saith,

A woman is a book, and often found, To prove far better in the sheets than bound;