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to follow; and, rushing upon Dame Fairfield, and, taking both her hands, she faintly ejaculated, "Oh my good dame!—hide, conceal me, I entreat!—I am pursued by a cruel enemy, and lost if you are not my friend!—Serve, save me, now, and I will be yours to the end of my life!"

"That I wull!" answered the dame, delighted; "if you wull but be so koind as to save my poor husband the sheame of being honged or transported, I wull go through fire and water to serve you, to the longest day I have to live upon the feace of God's yearth!"

Then, making the children play without doors, that they might not observe what passed, she told Juliet to bolt herself into the upper chamber.

In a few minutes, the children, running into the house, called out, "Mam, mam, yonder be dad!"

The dame went forth to meet him; and Juliet spent nearly half an hour in the most cruel suspense.

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