that is now too late to help, I must make me a mends:  But nothing could have fallen out more happily for you, if you will follow my direction; which is, That as soon as I am gone, you Complain in a low Voice of the Cruelty of your Husband in abusing and wronging his Chaste and Innocent Wife, in so shameful a manner, as the cutting of your Nose, & defacing your Beauty:  And then Pray to all the Blessed Saints above that are Protectors of Chastity, that they wou’d miraculously restore your Nose and Beauty again; and soon after, break out into Thanksgivings for having your Nose restored; and this will pass for a Miracle, and so Vindicate your Innocency that you will never more be suspected.  And I hope you will make me amends for what I have suffer’d for you.  This the young Lady faithfully promis’d; and so the Bawd went home to provide for her own Cure, leaving the Lady fast ty’d as she was at first by her Husband.

The Bawd was no sooner gone, and the Coast clear, but the Lady, fetching a great sigh, breaks forth into this doleful Lamentation,—­O unhappy Woman! unhappy above all Women!  Unhappy in having without cause lost the Love of a Husband in whom I had plac’d all my Happiness!  Unhappy in having my Reputation taken away by him, and Unhappy in being us’d more barbarously and Ignominiously by him, than if I were a Common Whore!  To have my Nose thus cut off, and my Beauty defac’d, and all this without Cause; what can be more barbarously Cruel in him, or render me more miserable!  But O ye Heavenly Powers, (added she in a higher Tone, that her Husband might hear her, which he also did) if such Powers there be, that are the Protectors of Chastity, and Vindicators of Innocence, Look down on me, whose Innocence you know, and hear my Prayers; If I have deviated from the strictest Rules of Vertue and of Honour, and Violated in the least the marriage Bond that I have enter’d into; let all your Direful Vengeance fall upon me.  But if I have kept my Chastity inviolate, and never wrong’d my Husbands Bed so much as in a thought, let my Disfigur’d Face be healed again, and my lost Beauty and dismembered Nose, which has been taken from me so unjustly, be both restored again, as a convincing Testimony of my Innocency.

Having ended her Prayer, she stood silent for about half a Quarter of an Hour; and then, as tho’ her Nose had been miraculously reunited to her Face again, she with a loud Voice broke forth into these Expressions:  O ye Immortal Powers that knew my spotless and Immaculate (tho Suffering) Chastity, and have so eminently now rewarded it, accept my Hearty and my Humble Thanks:  For by this Miracle that you have wrought for me, my Husband surely will believe my Innocency; and I am glad I shall be able at the Expence of so much blood, and so much Pain and Misery, to let him know how much he has wrong’d me, and how much I love him:  Yes, O ye Powers above, that have so wonderfully clear’d my Innocency, I do appeal to you how much I love him, notwithstanding all his Cruelty; for which, O ye Immortal Powers, I humbly invocate your gracious Pardon, because he did it through an Excess of Rage, to one whom he Imagin’d had been false.—­And then raising her Voice much higher, she call’d out to her Husband, saying. Come down, my Dearest Love, and see and be convinc’d how much you’ve wronged your Chaste and Loyal Wife.