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King Edward, he took her for his concubine, as will appear in the cloſe of this hiſtory. But the maid he had bribed with gold to get her abroad; repenting of ſuch treachery to her mailer, gave timely notice, and ſo prevented it.
Her father perceiving that, unleſs he took ſome ſpeedy courſe, her great ſtock of beauty would ſoon be her ruin, reſolved to have her married, ſo that having ſurrendered her virginity, and being in the arms of a huſband, thoſe that fought to crop her virgin roſe would not regard her, but give over the purſuit.
She had many ſuitors, and among thoſe that earneſtly ſought her in the way of marriage, was one Matthew Shore, a rich goldſmith in Lombard ſtreet, whom her father pitched upon as a husband, and acquainted his fair daughter with his intention to marry her to him, but ſhe appeared very averſe to it, alledging ſometimes diſproportion of years, he being above
