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should chuse to live at Arezzo above any other Place, and desired her to wait upon the above-mentioned Canon, to obtain for her a Letter of Recommendation to his Brother, a Captain at that City. The fond Mother, upon the Receipt of her fugitive Daughter's Letter, made but one Step of it to the Canon's House, and, without the least Intimation of Giovanni's Sex, urged the Request, so that she got her recommended to the Captain at Arezzo; yet her Matters were so cross, that neither her Patron's Interest, nor her own Person, could procure her a Service; so, after losing a Month there, the Captain sent her away to his Brother Bartholomew, who was settled at San Sepolcro, with whom she had better Fortune, getting soon after to be Body-Footman to Signore Francis Maria Pucci of

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