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take then giue, so now to make p'fit of her anger, she told me by no meanes I shoud enter acquaintance againe vnles franckly and freely I would giue her my white pipe. I made answer yt giue it I could not but if she would lay the browne mazer her mother gaue her to my whistle vpon any wager I would try the venter. wee a greed & ye bargaine was who in runinge should firste come to the bush at ye bottom of the hill, he should haue the prize, we set forwarde & step for step, stroke for stroke she kept wth me nay was often times before me till drawinge neere ye marke she begane to fainte & speechles fell downe. I whose mind was more on takinge her vp then on winninge the wager imployd my strength to ye thrusting of her vp againe. This kindnes of mine in shewinge, I neglected my profit in comparisō of her suer footing did so deeply p'ce [= pierce] her as shee thought it not enough to giue me yt curious wrought mazer confessinge it to be mine as won̄e by
