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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

CHAPTER XXIX
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I have prepared potions and powders which Mistress Turner (with whose reputation your ladyship must needs be acquainted) used to vend to her customers.

My draughts have removed many a troublesome husband, and silenced many a jealous wife.

I have helped many an heir to the speedy enjoyment of an inheritance, which, but for my assistance, would not have come to him for years.

The lover with a rival in his way, who has come to me, has soon been freed from all anxiety on that score.
The courtier, eager for a post which a superior held, has gained it by my aid.

Yet none of those whom I have thus benefited have been suspected.


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