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A YORK DIALOGUE.5 banter me, for I know you men love to tantalize us ſilly women. Upon my faith, madam, ſaid I, I am in good earneſt, for a man of my trade muſt have both journeymen and prentices, therefore I cannot well be without a wife, and you are the only perſon that I always fancied would make me happy. Then I look her by the hand again, and with much ado got a kiſs of her. Pray be quiet, ſaid ſhe, L—d! what do you mean? you are ſo troubleſome! and look'd very angry, and ſo left me.

Harry. Very well, Ned, go on, this is vaſtly pleaſant.

Ned. That very kiſs made me think of her, and love her more than ever I did; for, after that kiſs, I was always wiſhing myſelf in her company, and was never at reſt. The Sunday after, I ſaw her in the minſter, at prayers, and thought every thing handſome and pretty about her: her face, her eyes, her mouth, her breaſt, her ſhape. I watch'd her coming out of the choir, and walk'd with her in the minſter, and aſk'd her if the would pleaſe to take a walk into the groves, but ſhe told me