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She Deseas'd young - at the 5th year
of my age & in my tender years
I drank in the delights of the world
as Dancing & mirth, with all viggous
yet often in Church I was Disolv'd
in tears in hearing the Epistels
& Gospels Read & perticuler such
as mention'd the Passion & suffering
of our Dear Saviour
But on my being under a step-
mother, at my 15th year I left them
hiering myself out, from place
to place in Oxford where on Account
of my fIne aire in Dancing I was
much esteem'd by the Rich jentrey
About the 1735 & the 31st year of my
age I became at times trubilled &
uneasey by means of som Law preac-
hers that kept Society meetings
in the citty at which time I liv'd
with the Rever'd Mr. Wilder whos
Wife on perceiving my Behaviours
chang'd her temper us'd all possible means to
to turn & Divert me from it. but as
she therby avail'd nothing she chan'd
her