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 9                    purpose to betray her, never thinking it                     was her man Tom. She was greatly vex- ed for a long time, and could not tell what she had best do, sometimes thinking one thing and sometimes another. In this perplexity at last she pinn'd up her petti- coat, and resolved to venture home, let what should be the event. So home she went, and found her husband sitting by                    the fire (poor cuckold) warming himself, not thinking where his wife had been, nor at whose fire she had been warmed. When she perceived he was ignorant where she had been, she thought he had made himself so on purpose to hear what she would say. She sitting by the fire very melancholy, at length her husband asked her what made her so disconsolate? She answered, she was not very well. The cuckold being very kind, as most are, caused a cordial to be prepared for her; yet she could not be well for three or four days, Tom took no notice of her at that time; but some short space thereafter, he spoke to her in this manner; Good, mistress, I                    see you have been very melancholy these three or four days: If you are any ways discontented, I will venture my life to pur- chase your content; or if any one hath done