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if more than an hundred perſons were laughing together, but nothing was ſeen.
CHAP. V.
How Urſula married a young Man named Tobias Shipton; and how ſtrangely ſhe diſcovered a Thief.
OUR Urſula was now arrived at the four and twentieth year of her age and though ſhe was none of the prettieſt maids in the town, as you may remember by her defcription, yet ſhe longed for a huſband as well as the beſt of them, and at laſt obtained her deſire för whether ſhe uſed any love powder or charms to enamour her, or whether the hopes of getting a little money, which ſhe was reported to have, though no body could tell how ſhe got it, cauſed him to court her, as there are ſome men that would not only marry the devil's daughter, but his dam too for money, I cannot certainly inform the reader; but a ſweetheart ſhe had, named Tobias Shipton, by trade a carpenter, to whom ſhe was ſhortly after married, and very comfortably they lived together, but never had any children. It happened
