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Mistress Stagg's tongue went as fast as her needle: "And Deborah is

asleep! Poor soul! she's sadly changed froo As neat a shape as you would see in a day's journey,

with the prettiest color, and eyes as bright as those marcasite buttons!

And she saw the best of couineas and fine gentlee in this enerally for the worse Here,

child, you htfoot's ruffles I think myself

lucky, I can tell you, that there are so feoo on myself; for since poor, dear, pretty Jane Day

died of the smallpox, and Oriana Jordan ran aith the rascally

Bridewell fellow that we bought to play husbands' parts, and was never

heard of otten clean off to Barbadoes by

favor of the master of the Lady Susan, we have been short of actresses

But in this play there are only Marcia and Lucia 'It is extremely

fortunate, , 'that in this

play, which is the proper co

office, Mr Addison should have put no more than tomen' And Mirabell

says--Don't put the lace so full, child; 'twon't go round"

"A chair is stopping at the gate," said Audrey, who sat by the