The Blazing World and Other Writings
Contributors: Kate Lilley (Editor, Introduction)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: October 1, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780140433722
First sentence: A noble gentleman that had been married many years, but his wife being barren, did bear him no children; at last she died, and his friends did advise him to marry again, because his brother's children were dead, and his wife was likely to have no more: so he took to wife a virtuous young Lady, and after one year she conceived with child, and great joy there was of all sides: but in her child-bed she died, leaving only one daughter to her sorrowful husband, who in a short time, oppressed with melancholy, died, and left his young daughter, who was not a year old, to the care and breeding of his brother, and withal left her a great estate, for he was very rich.
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