happiness if you might but have such an one: As for her Money,
slight it, it will be never the further off, that's the way to come
soonest at it, for she will be jealous at first that you come for
her Money; you know what she has, but make not a word about it. Do
this, and you shall see if you do not intangle the Lass.

Thus was the snare laid for this poor honest Maid, and she was
quickly catched in his pit.

Atten. Why, did he take this counsel?

Wise. Did he! yes, and after a while, went as boldly to her, {71c}
and that under a Vizzard of Religion, as if he had been for Honesty
and Godliness, one of the most sincere and upright-hearted in
England. He observed all his points, and followed the advice of
his Counsellers, and quickly obtained her too; for natural parts he
had, he was tall, and fair, and had plain, but very good Cloaths on
his back; and his Religion was the more easily attained; for he had
seen something in the house of his Father, and first Master, and so
could the more readily put himself into the Form and Shew thereof.

So he appointed his day, and went to her, as that he might easily
do, for she had neither father nor mother to oppose. Well, when he
was come, and had given her a civil Complement, {72a} to let her
understand why he was come, then he began and told her, That he had
found in his heart a great deal of love to her Person; and that, of
all the Damosels in the world he had pitched upon her, if she
thought fit, to make her his beloved wife. The reasons, as he told
her, why he had pitched upon her were, her Religious and personal
Excellencies; and therefore intreated her to take his condition