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a rickle of banes row'd up in a runkly skin, had wasted her body with water lythocks in- to a scrufe of skin and bane, for want of teeth to chow bread for the nourishment of her body, and that he was com'd on purpose to write her testament or latter-will, that it was a lightness in her brain before death; there fore she ought to go to bed and die directly, which she accordingly did by taking thought of what was said unto her; the priest being sent for, came and discoursed with her, but still she keeping her purse in her hand, which he observing, desired she would give it to her friends or she died, to which she made answer, by her sooth that she wad not, for she wad tak it wi' her, she had heard every body say, they were the better o' the penny wi' them gang whare they like, and so died, supposed to be a hundred and six years old.
An Oration on the Virtues of the OLD
WOMEN, and the Pride of the YOUNG.
The madness of this unmuzzled age has driven me to mountains of thoughts, and a continual meditation; It is enough to make an auld wife rin redwood, and drive a body beyond the halter's end of ill-nature, to see what I see, and hear what I hear: Therefore the hinges of my anger are broke, and the bands of my good and mild nature are burst in two, the door of civility is laid quite open, plain speech and mild admonition is
