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And upon this account he keeps a ſtrick and over her, to prevent her being ſto- len away. This ſtruck him almoſt dead with the horror of deſpair, yet ſome- thing he reſolved to do, but what at pre- ſent he could not frame in his heart. And ſo home he went to conſider how to ma- nage this love affair, that at firſt he might not by an over raſh addreſs daſh all his future hopes of happineſs to pieces in the contriving of which we ſhall have him for a time, to conſider the conditi- on he left Iſabel in.

CHAP. II.

Iſabella falls ſick for Beateman, and is given over; he come in the habit of a Phyſician, and diſcovers him ſelf to her, by which the recovers, to the great joy for her Parents.

This beauteous maid who though of- ⟨te⟩in courted, and ſtood proof againſt the ⟨ſi⟩ghs tears and entreaties of many young ⟨h⟩andſome bachelors. Found now ſhe ⟨ſt⟩ood in need of pity herſelf. Beate- ⟨m⟩an's ideas were fixed in her mind, thatſleeping