Providence
A doctor of divinity, of singular learning and piety, sent his maid to the market, to..get provision for the following week: But all the money he and his wife could make, was but five shillings ; his wife fell a weeping, and told her husband, that there was likelihood they could live.together, and that therefore she would take one or two of her children with her, and live among her friends, if he Could provide for himself and the rest of his children? Nay, dear wife, said he, we have lived thus long together, let not us now part, let us rely on God's providence: She in her grief and haste answered, Well, send providence to market, and see what it will bring home. It was so that day, a nobleman, who knew this doctor very well, dining with divers gentlemen at an inn, looking out of the window, saw the doctor's maid, whom being an ancient servant, he knew, and sent for her up, asking her how her master did; she answered, very well, and fell a weeping; he enquiring the cause, she t...