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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...planet reigns now, trow, that old men are so foolish? What desperate young swaggerer would have been abroad such a weather as this upon the water? Ay me, see another remnant of this unfortunate shipwrack, or some other! A woman, i'faith, a woman! Though it be almost at St. Katherine's, I discern it to be a woman, for all her body is above the water, and her clothes swim about her most handsomely. 0, they bear her up most bravely! Has not a woman reason to love the taking up of her clothes the better while she lives, for this? Alas, how busy the rude Thames is about her! A pox 0' that wave I It will drown her, i'faith, 'twill drown her! Cry God mercy, she has scaped it, I thank heaven she has scaped it! 0 how she swims like a mermaid! Some vigilant body look out and save her. That's well said; just where the priest fell in, there's one sets down a ladder, and goes to take her up. God's blessing 0' thy heart, boy! Now take her up in thy arms and to bed with her. She's up, she' up! She's a beautiful woman, I warrant her; the billows durst not devour her. Enter the Drawer in (/1: Tavcm below, with Winifred Draw. How fare you now. lady? Win. Much better, my good friend. than I wish; one desperate of her fame, now my life is preserved. Draw. Comfort yourself: that Power that preserved you from death can likewise defend you from infamy, howsoever you deserve it. Were not you one that took boat late this night with a knight and other gentlemen at Billingsgate? Win. Unhappy that I am, I was. Draw. 1 am glad it was my good hap to come down thus far after you. to a house of my friend's here in St. Katherine's, since I am now happily made a mean to your rescue from the ruthless tempest, which (when you took...