: For indeed being
a good Customer, and paying very well, he had always the Cream of all that
came to my House; being very much a Gentleman; and one whom I wou'd be glad
to help to your Embraces, if you wou'd do me that Honour, and I am sure you
cann't have to do with a Compleater Person, and one better fitted to serve
a Woman. _You wou'd, make me have a Mind to him_, reply'd the Lady: Well,
Madam, _said the Bawd_, ere it be long, I'll bring you two together. But,
as I was a saying, he having told some intimate Friends of his, that he had
the enjoyment of a very fine Lady: said one of 'em, _Prithee_ Esq, _who
is't that helps you to these fine Ladies that you talk of?_ Upon this, not
doubting but they wou'd keep his Counsel, he told 'em 'twas I that help'd
him, upon such occasions; and one of these Gentlemen told another of his
Comrades in the hearing of the Disguis'd Constable, who made that use of it
I have already told you. But now, to prevent the like accidents, we admit
no Strangers, unless they bring a Letter from the Person they are
Recommended by, and therein an Account of the last time they were here. By
which means we are very secure; and tho' the Society for Reformation, as
they call it, does utterly Ruine all such as are Publick Houses of
Assignation, yet our Trade is rather made the better by it; because here
they may meet without Danger of being Exposed, as a Worthy Gentlewoman had
like to have been not long ago, which might have been her Ruine, had she
not fallen into the hands of Gentlemen.

_Pray how was that_, said the Goldsmith's Lady?

It is a Story worth your hearing, _reply'd the Bawd_; and if you please
I'll give you the Relation of it, as I had it from one of the Gentlemen
concern'd therein. _You will Oblige me very much_; answer'd the Lady.
Whereupon the Bawd thus began.

It happened that two Gentlemen belonging to the Army (of which the one was
my Particular Acquaintance, and a good Customer to my House) taking Water
at the _Still-yard_, was minded to divert themselves upon the River, by
going up to _Chelsie_-Reach; where they sometimes met with pretty Ladies
proper for their Purpose, But as they were going along, they perceived a
very fine Gentlewoman in a rich Garb, in a _Sculler_, all alone; and also
observed that she made the _Sculler_, who was a good likely Young Man, row
her sometimes one way, and sometimes another, without going to any certain
Place. This gave 'em occasion to Conjecture