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A Woman that had a good handsome young Daughter, sent her to her Landlord at New-years-tide, with a New-years-gift, and he being a lusty Batchelor, and lov'd a pretty Lady besides, and seeing the Maid to be handsome, with some Importu∣nity, and some Gratuity, got her Con¦sent,
that she proved with Child, for whose Maintenance and Mothers too he paid: And then hearing of a lusty young woman and rich, that liv'd hard by him, be became a Suitor to her in Marriage; to which she easily condescended: And on that day that they were to be married, the other that he had got with Child be∣fore, came to the Church also to see the Wedding, which her Child in her Arms; and all the while they were in the Church, that woman would dandle her Child up and down in her Arms; and sometimes look upon her Landlord, and sometimes on her Child, with a smiling Countenance; which that woman that was that day to be married to him observing, told him plainly, that she would not be married till he gave her satisfaction concerning that Woman and her Child: He put her off still with excuses; but at last he told her he would tell her the truth, if she would not take it ill. No, says she, I will not, let it be what it will. Why then, says he, I got her with Child, and what is the Child in her Arms. Puh, says she, is that all? I had one a twelve month ago by Londoner that lodg'd at our house. Say you so, says he, then I faith I'll marry a Whore of my own making rather than of another man's, and so call'd the Woman
to him that had the Child in her Arms, and married her presently.