The Lady had made all things ready for the Entertaining her Gallant; a Splendid Banquet being provided for him before he went to his Amorous Engagement; and being just ready to call him in, her Husband (who had been concealed near the House for some time, and seen the suspected Gallant walk to and fro in the Street,) suddenly enters the House, and finding such a Banquet ready prepared, no longer doubted but it was to entertain him; and therefore hastily calls for his Wife, and asks her the meaning of those Preparations, and who that Banquet was design’d for?  The young Lady, surpriz’d and confounded at her Husbands unexpected Return, was at a Loss what to answer him; but plucking up her Spirits as well as she could, told him that she was resolv’d to surprize him, as well as he was to surprize her; for being inform’d that he had chang’d his mind, and was returning home, thinking to surprize her, she intended by that banquet to surprize him at his Return.  This answer of hers, as plausible as it seem’d, he was sure was altogether False; and therefore taking her by the Shoulder, he with a stern and angry Countenance said, No, thou Disloyal Strumpet:  it is not such a poor Excuse as this shall serve thy Turn; I am not to be deceiv’d; I saw that Lustful Leacher walking at the Door for whom this Banquet was prepar’d; and had I but been Arm’d, I would have given him another sort of Entertainment than that which you design’d him; But since your Lust’s so hot, I’ll see if I can’t cure it; and with that he dragg’d her out of doors, and stripp’d her Naked, and so led her into a Pond he had within his Yard; and there he ty’d her fast unto a Post which was plac’d in the midst of it; telling her that by to morrow-morning he hop’d she wou’d be something cooler; whilst she in vain protests her Innocency, and intreats him to release her.  And having left her in this cold Condition, Locks up his Servants in their Chambers, and taking all the Keys into his own Possession, he repairs to Bed.

Her Spark in the mean time, weary with so long walking before the Door, and wondring that he wan’t admitted, repairs to the old Bawd to know the reason of it; She was as much concern’d at it as he; but having had a Key from the young lady, by which she might at any time come in at the back-Door, desir’d him to stay there, whilst she went to the House to see what was the matter:  And having open’d the back Gate which led into the Court where the Pond was, she straight saw the Lady in the Pond, in the same Station as her Husband left her; And coming towards her, with a low voice, enquired into the cause of her Calamity.

O (said the Lady to her) you have ruin’d me for ever, your Cursed Counsel has undone me; your Eyes are Witnesses to what disgrace and misery it has already expos’d me; And what the end will be, I know not.  Why, said the Bawd, you have not seen your Gallant, without you had some other than he which I design’d to help you to.—­No, no, reply’d the Lady, I had prepar’d for