ded, after I had been there some time, to be extremely in love
with the dress of the Quakers, and this pleased her so much that she
would needs dress me up one day in a suit of her own clothes; but my
real design was to see whether it would pass upon me for a disguise.

Amy was struck with the novelty, though I had not mentioned my design to
her, and when the Quaker was gone out of the room says Amy, "I guess
your meaning; it is a perfect disguise to you. Why, you look quite
another body; I should not have known you myself. Nay," says Amy, "more
than that, it makes you look ten years younger than you did."

Nothing could please me better than that, and when Amy repeated it, I
was so fond of it that I asked my Quaker (I won't call her landlady;
'tis indeed too coarse a word for her, and she deserved a much
better)--I say, I asked her if she would sell it. I told her I was so
fond of it that I would give her enough to buy her a better suit. She
declined it at first, but I soon perceived that it was chiefly in good
manners, because I should not dishonour myself, as she called it, to put
on her old clothes; but if I pleased to accept of them, she would give
me them for my dressing-clothes, and go with me, and buy a suit for me
that might be better worth my wearing.

But as I conversed in a very frank, open manner with her, I bid her do
the like with me; that I made no scruples of such things, but that if
she would let me have them I would satisfy her. So she let me know what
they cost, and to make her amends I gave her three guineas more than
they cost her.

This good (though unhappy) Quaker had the misfortune to have had a bad
husband, and he was gone beyond sea. She had a good house, and well
furnished, and had some jointure of her own estate which supported her
and her children, so that she did not want; but she was not at all above
such a help as my being there was to her; so she was as glad of me as I
was of her.

However, as I knew there was no way to fix this new acquaintance like
making myself a friend to her, I began with making her some handsome
presents and the like to her children. And first, opening my bundles one
day in my chamber, I heard her in another room, and called her in with a
kind of familiar way. There I showed her some of my fine clothes, and
having among the rest of my things a piece of very fine new holland,
which I had bought a little before, worth about 9s. an ell, I pulled it
out: "Here, m