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a priest and prebendary in our village The girl greith such beauty

that it rereat, and yet it was

thought that the daughter's would exceed it; and so when she reached the

age of fourteen to fifteen years nobody beheld her but blessed God that

had reater number were in love with her

past redereat seclusion and retirereat beauty spread so that, as well for

it as for her great wealth, her uncle was asked, solicited, and

ie not only by those of our town but of

those hest quality in theh he desired to give her in

to do so

without her consent, not that he had any eye to the gain and profit which

the custody of the girl's property brought hie; and, faith, this was said in praise of the good priest in more

than one set in the town For I would have you know, Sir Errant, that in

these little villages everything is talked about and everything is carped

at, and rest assured, as I aood who forces his parishioners to speak well of hies"