his Master, and partly through the unkind Usage of his unfaithful Wife, died some few Months after.

L.


[Footnote 1:]

The story of Queen Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, and her walking unhurt, blindfold and barefoot, over nine red-hot ploughshares, is told in

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, a frequent suggester of allusions in the

Spectator

. Tonson reported that he usually found

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