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but will you make her Deputy of Deputy Hall ? and 

 landlady of all the land that is belonging to it? and 

 mistress of all the stock that is upon the land, and 

 goods that are within the house, and then you shall 

 hear what my daughter* and her waiting woman will 

 say unto you.&quot; 



u With all my heart,&quot; said Tom, &quot; and all the hogs 

 and poultry that are about the house to boot, and she 

 shall lie upon six feather-beds the first night.&quot; 



Matters being arranged after some jocular preliminary 

 promises, Tom telling the bride that they were 

 agreed, the lady drank to him, he promising to marry 

 her after dinner ; the only difficulty appearing to arise 

 from the want of wedding clothes. The Marquis, willing 

 to remove that obstacle, told Tom that he thought his 

 clothes would fit him, and bid him go into his wardrobe, 

 and take what he had a mind to. 



u Give me your key,&quot; said Tom ; and receiving it, 

 went up, and equipped himself with the Marquis s 

 beaver hat, satin cloak laid with plush, daubed with a 

 gold and silver lace, suit of the same, silk-stockings, 

 with roses and garters suitable, inside and outside, cap- 

 a-pie, all as brave as if he carried a lordship on his 

 back. 



&quot; The lady bride takes her woman aside, and dresses 

 her in one of her richest and newest gowns, with all 

 things answerable thereto, not without some store of 

 slight jewels, and brings her down as glorious as the 

 morn that breaks from the eastern hill, and chases night 

 away. 



&quot; Tom acted this scene of mirth in the Hall, which 

 proved to be a thing of that convenience, as if it had 

 been an act of some set policy to keep the crowd out of 



Eli/abeth, bis fourth daughter. 



