hop'd to be made happy with the enjoyment of
her last Favours; but she seeming to be mightily affronted at his
Discourse, told him, That if he did'nt leave off prating at that rate to
her, she would call to her Man to Kick him out of the Shop: Which
disdainful Carriage did so much exasperate him, that he replyed with some
heat, Why Madam, do you think I cann't do your Business as well as _John_
did, at the _Three-Cranes_ Tavern in _Thame-street_, last Night? These
words made her change as Pale as Death: Sir, said she, As you are a
Gentleman, I hope you won't expose me: And I'll oblige you in what'e'er you
ask me.--Chuse your Cloth, says she, and I'll come down to you presently.
And then going up Stairs she return'd again in two minutes, and put twenty
Guineas into his hands, to pay for the Cloth, appointing to meet 'em at the
old Tavern an hour after; which she did accordingly, gratifying both the
Gentlemen with the same Favours she had bestow'd the Night before upon
_John_ the Waterman, whose Nose these Gentlemen had put out of
joint.--Judge you now, Madam, what a case this Gentlewoman had been in, had
she fallen into other hands. But all such accidents are avoided by those
that make use of such a House as mine.

The Bawd having made an End of her Discourse, after a little pause, The
Goldsmith's Lady thus began:

_I return you many Thanks for the Relation of your Life: Your Advice before
has sav'd my Reputation to my Husband and the World; which he who had first
Tempted me to Lewdness, and overcame me through the Love of Money, would
have afterwards Expos'd; for which I think my self oblig'd to you: But the
Relation you have now given me, has Oblig'd me much more; for it has made
me quite out of Love with the Trade you have all along follow'd; if for
nothing else, because of the Dangers that attend it. For if you look back,
and reflect upon your first going astray, it was full of danger and hazard;
and how private so ever you thought you were in it, yet it could not escape
your Husbands Jealousie and Mistrust; and at last, when you least suspected
it, was fully discover'd by your Gallant himself. And that occasion'd your
being turn'd out of Doors; and that taking all sense of shame from you, (as
you well observed) exposed you to a thousand Temptantions; which being
suited to your own Natural Inclinations, you presently closed withal; which
in a little time was, it seems, attended by the Pox; and which besides,
many ti