nt down three or four steps,
and saw her making to his chamber, the door of which was open: So I
said, I cannot go there!--Don't be foolish, said she; but come; no harm
will be done to you!--Well, said I, if I die, I cannot go there. I heard
him say, Let her come, or it shall be worse for her. I can't bear,
said he, to speak to her myself!--Well, said I, I cannot come, indeed I
cannot; and so I went up again into my closet, expecting to be fetched
by force.

But she came up soon after, and bid me make haste to bed: Said I, I will
not go to bed this night, that's certain!--Then, said she, you shall
be made to come to bed; and Nan and I will undress you. I knew neither
prayers nor tears would move this wicked woman: So I said, I am sure you
will let master in, and I shall be undone! Mighty piece of undone! she
said: but he was too much exasperated against me, to be so familiar with
me, she would assure me!--Ay, said she, you'll be disposed of another
way soon, I can tell you for your comfort: and I hope your husband will
have your obedience, though nobody else can have it. No husband in the
world, said I, shall make me do an unjust or base thing.--She said, That
would be soon tried; and Nan coming in, What! said I, am I to have two
bed-fellows again, these warm nights? Yes, said she, slippery-one, you
are, till you can have one good one instead of us. Said I, Mrs. Jewkes,
don't talk nastily to me: I see you are beginning again; and I shall
affront you, may be; for next to bad actions, are bad words; for they
could not be spoken, if they were not in the heart.--Come to bed,
purity! said she. You are a nonsuch, I suppose. Indeed, said I, I can't
come to bed; and it will do you no harm to let me stay all night in the
great chair. Nan, said she, undress my young lady. If she won't let you,
I'll help you; and, if neither of us can do it quietly, we'll call my
master to do it for us; though, said she, I think it an office worthier
of Monsieur Colbrand!--You are very wicked, said I. I know it, said she;
I am a Jezebel, and a London prostitute, you know. You did great feats,
said I, to tell my master all this poor stuff; but you did not tell him
how you beat me. No, lambkin, said she, (a word I had not heard a good
while,) that I left for you to tell and you was going to do it if the
vulture had not taken the wolf's part, and bid the poor innocent lamb
be silent!--Ay, said I, no matter for your fleers, Mrs. Jewkes; though
I can h