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An Apprentice of London being brought before the Chamberlain by his Master, for the sin of incontinency, even with his own Mistriss; the Chamberlain thereupon gave
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An Apprentice of London being brought before the Chamberlain by his Master, for the sin of incontinency, even with his own Mistriss; the Chamberlain thereupon gave
him many Christian Exhortations, and at last mentioned and press'd the Chastity of Joseph, when his Mistriss tempted him with the like crime of incontinency. I Sir, said the Apprentice, but if Joseph's Mi∣striss had been as handsome as mine is, he could not have forborn.