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and wept lest he should get no more mo-
ney. O said Polly, mother, I'll wed him
nevertheless, I love him so dearly! No
vou foolish girl, said her mother, would
you marry a man and die a maid? You
don't know the end of your creation; it
is the enjoyment of a man in bed, that
makes women to marry, which is a plea-
sure like Paradise, and if you wed this
man you will live and die, and never feel
it. Hoo, Hoo, says Tom, if l had got
money, I needed not been this way till
now. Money you fool, said the old wo-
man, there's not such a thing to be got
for money in all England, Ay, says Tom,
there's a doctor in Newcastle, will make
me as able as any other man for ten gui-
neas. Ten guineas, said she, I'll give him
fifty guineas if he will, but here is twelve,
and go to him directly, and see what he
can do, and then come again and wed my
child, or she and I will both die for thy
sake. Tom having now got twelve gui-
neas more of their money, got all things
ready, and early next morning, set out
for Newcastle, but instead of going there
he came to old Scotland, and left Polly
and her mother to think upon him. In
about two weeks thereafter, when he
was not like to return, nor so much as
any word from him, the old woman and
