The old Gentleman, that lay awake in his Bed and had hear’d all this, knew not what to think of it:  He was sure he had cut off her Nose, and flung it at her Face, but had not faith enough to think it was set on again; and therefore thought it was some Trick to be releas’d:  However, since she call’d to him to see and be convinc’d, he was resolv’d to know the Truth of it, and therefore rising up, and lighting of a Candle, he came down stairs and went straight to his Wife, and looking on her very earnestly, he sees her Face was whole and sound; at which he was so much confounded and amaz’d, that he began to fear lest Heaven, that had shew’d such a miracle in healing her, shou’d pour its Vengeance down upon his Head, for his detested rashness and his barbarous Cruelty; and therefore sets her loose immediately, and presently conveying her to Bed, O thou that art all Goodness and all Innocence (said the transported Cuckold) can’st thou forgive one that has wronged thee at that rate that I have done? Yes, my dear Husband (answer’d the cunning Whore) Since Heaven has heard my Prayer and clear’d my Innocence, I forgive all the World, but thee especially. And thereupon her Husband made a solemn Protestation, That he wou’d never more be Jealous of his Wife, let her do what she would.

Thus you see how by the Cunning Contrivance of an Old Bawd, a young Lady was made a Whore, and an old Dotard a young Cuckold.  And also how she can manage all events to the carrying on of her Pernicious Design; answering the Character the Wise-man gives of her, Her ways are moveable that thou canst not know ’em.

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CHAP.  IV.

    How a Married Man, drawn in by a Bawd, kept a Whore, to the Ruine of
    himself and Family.

We have seen in the last chapter how our Bawd drew in a young Married Woman to deceive her Husband, and wrong the Marriage-Bed:  And in this Chapter you shall see how she draws in a Married Man to follow Whoring, so the Ruine of himself, a vertuous Wife, and all his Family:  For if she can but Rise, she cares not who she Ruines.—­But to the Story.

An Impudent Whore, of our Bawds own bringing up, that by removing to several Quarters, had made a shift to escape Bridewel, which she merited as much as any that ever came thither, had through the Bawds assistance, drawn in one Foolish Fellow, by her Rich Robes, fair face, and fine Words, to maintain her like a Lady; tho’ she was but the Daughter of a sorry Informer:  Pride and Pleasure were the two Idols she ador’d; and to enjoy them, she cared not how she exposed her poor Cully; who was oblig’d to be liberal to the Bawd for Procuration, as well as to the Whore for Fornication:  Till at last her Pride and Pleasure had brought him to Pain and Poverty.  Neglecting of his Business, and Maintaining of his Miss, had made him run in Debt, and he began to be so haunted by Bailiffs and Sergeants, that he