FAB. CLIX.

The _Washing_ of a _Blackmore_.

A Man gave Money for a _Black_, upon an Opinion that his Swarthy Colour

was rather Sluttery then Nature, and the Fault of his last Master, in a

Great Measure, that he kept him no Cleaner: He took him Home with him,

and try’d All manner of Washes to bring him to a Better Complexion: But

there was no Good to be Done upon him; besides, that the very tampering

Cast him into a Disease.

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