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husband was almoſt diſtracted, and at laſt they concluded ſhe was taken away by ſome courtier; and in three days after a lady informed them that ſhe was with the King. This added more to their grief, and they kew not what courſe to take; they alſo knew if they went to croſs the King, it would be their ruin,
They made inquiry indeed if it was, her voluntary act, and finding it was, and ſhe quite unwilling to leave her new lover; ſo that Mr Shore, looſing all hopes of recovering her, grew melancholy, and ſold off all that he had and went abroad, but having ſpent his fortune, he returned in a poor condition, when he practiſe clippling and filing gold coin to maintain himſelf; for which he ſuffered death in the latter end of Henry VII's reign.
Jane Shore having rendered up her chaſtity to the King, pleaſed with the glittering of a court, and endeared by a monarch's love, was admired by the vulgar, towards whom ſhe
