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LIFE AND TRANSACTIONS

OF

Mrs Jane Shore.

Mrs Jane Shore was daughter Mr Thomas Wainstead, a citizen good repute, who lived in Cheapside by trade a mercer. She being the only child of her parents. was brought up with all the care and tenderness imaginable, not wanting any education that was proper for her; and his natural temper, which was very ai(illegible text) being joined to her education, and the degree of pride which, as it is natur(illegible text) some make necessary for the female sex, helped to set her off to the best advantage. Fine feathers always make fine birds; and if the birds are fi(illegible text) without them, doubtless they made them doubly so.