Sir
_Christian's_, where they arriv'd Time enough to be present the next Day
at Sir _Christian's_ Daughter's Wedding, which they kept there for a
whole Fortnight.

_FINIS._

NOTES: The Wandering Beauty.

p. 451 _two Pinners_. A pinner is 'a coif with two long flaps one on
each side pinned on and hanging down, and sometimes fastened at the
breast . . . sometimes applied to the flaps as an adjunct of the
coif.'--_N.E.D._ cf. Pepys, 18 April, 1664: 'To Hyde Park . . . and my
Lady Castlemaine in a coach by herself, in yellow satin and a
pinner on.'

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THE UNHAPPY MISTAKE; OR, THE IMPIOUS VOW PUNISH'D.

The Effects of Jealousy have ever been most fatal; and it is certainly
one of the most tormenting Passions that an human Soul can be capable
of, tho' it be created by the least Appearances of Reason: The Truth of
which this following Story will evince.

Sir _Henry Hardyman_ was a Gentleman of a very large Estate in
_Somersetshire_, of a very generous Temper, hospitable almost to
_Extravagancy_; a _plain down-right Dealer, wonderfully good-natur'd_,
but very _passionate_: Whose Lady dying, left him only a Son and a
Daughter; between whom there were about six Years Difference in their
Age. _Miles Hardyman_ (for so the Son was call'd) being the eldest; both
of naturally virtuous Inclinations, which were carefully improv'd by a
generous and pious Education. _Miles_ was a very tall, large, and
well-proportion'd Person at Two and Twenty; brave and active, and seem'd
to be born for War, tho' he had a Heart as tender and capable of
receiving the Impressions of Love as any of our Sex. He had been bred
for some Years at the University; where, among other Things, he learn'd
to fence; in which, however, he was mightily improv'd in a Twelvemonth's
Time that he stay'd here in Town. _Lucretia_, his Sister, was beautiful
enough, her Father designing to give ten thousand Pounds with her on
Marriage; but (which is above all) she was incomparably good-humour'd.

At his Return to his Father in the Country, young _Hardyman_ found Madam
_Diana Constance_, a most beautiful Lady, with his Sister, at that Time
about 16 Years old; somewhat tall of her Age, of happy and virtuous
Education, of an indifferent Fortune, not exceeding two thousand Pounds,
which was no Way answerable to the Expectations he had after his
Father's Death; but it was impossibl