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Excerpt from Canterbury Tales, Vol. 2
Mifa Arden was fo -naturally beautiful and elegant, and fo anxious ever to appear to advantage, that the Governor, having trifled in fecret with two or three pretty light coquettes, who..laughed at his ugly face and his fuperannuated gallantry, now refolved to devote himfelf to this lofty charmer. He already knew lhehad no other aim than the other miffes; to make her fortune and that {he would value him but as {he thought that might be afcertain ed: yet ftill he devoted himfelf to. Her. He was certain {he was ignorant of the change in his circumfiances; and he had cheated his own fex fo often, that it ap peared a mere amufement to cheat a woman.
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