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unto him at his firſt ſending ; and this being
agreed betwixt them, for that time they parted.
The gentleman, wondrous careful of his
undertaking becauſe ſhe was his new creature,
came to a kinſwoman of his afar off, and told
her there was a civil maid, a kinſwoman of his
lately come from the country, who wanted
ſervice, whom if ſhe pleaſed to entertain it
might prove a great good to her, and no leſs
a courteſy to him. This motion being accepted,
ſhe was ſent for according to appointinent,
and entertained. Her modeſt behaviour, and
fair carriage, won her in a ſhort time the opinion
of her maſter and a great affection from
her miſtreſs; who falling ſick even to death ſo
much doated on her new ſervant that ſhe ſent
for her huſband, and deſired him that if he
thought of marriage after her deceaſe, to make
that woman his wife, and mother to her children.
The gentlewoman ſoon after dies, he
is left a widow and the charge of the whole
houſe left to this new convert with the bringin
up of his children ; which ſhe executed
with fidelity, that he caſting a more curious eye
upon her youth and beauty ; and witha! remembring
his wife's laſt words, he contracted
himſelf unto her, and they ſoon after married.
But before any of theſe laſt paſſages happened,
I muſt remember to you, that inſtantly upon
the pteferment of this young woman, the gentleman
who brought her this fortune, adventured
all his means upon a voyage that miſcarried,
for the ſhip wherein he failed, was taken
by the Spaniards, and he almoſt a twelvemonth
kept a priſoner at Cadiz. But at length being
ranſomed, he came for this country, but ſo
