but was as good as her word; yet engages him to take
no notice of it to her Mother, and then as soon as
he was a Bed, she’d come to him: Accordingly,
after he was a Bed, she comes to Bed to him, as she
before had promis’d: And after they had
both gratify’d their wanton desires, the Whore
professing a great deal of Love to him, and pretending
she shou’d never be happy till they were married,
Miss Betty all of a sudden pretends to want
the Chamber-pot, which she desir’d him to help
her to, who feeling about for it for sometime, cou’d’nt
find it; upon which she told him she remember’d
the Maid left it in the Window and desir’d him
to reach it there; which he going to do, and treading
upon a Trap door, it presently gave away; and down
fell our Amorous Spark into the Alley; his Fall was
but little, and so did but stun him for the present,
and his being only in his Shirt quickly made him sensible
of the cold; As soon as he came to himself he got
up, and it being very dark, he knew neither where he
was, nor which way to go; but endeavouring to find
a door, he went on till he came to Clerken well-green;
where seeing a Light at the Watch-house, he went thither;
a Person all in white being seen by one of the Watch-men,
he gave notice of it to the Constable; who with his
whole Watch was very much affrighted, and began to
exorcise this supposed Spirit; who being almost dead
with cold, (for it was cold frosty Weather) told them
he was no Ghost, but Flesh and Blood as they were;
but Mr. Constable was loth to believe him upon
his own Word, and therefore commanding him to stand,
sent one of the most Couragious of his Watch-men to
see whether it was so or no; who having found him
to be what he said, he was taken into the Watch house,
and put to the Fire, and examined how he came into
that condition; who gave the Constable an account
how he met with one Mrs Pierpoint his Country-woman,
by whom he was invited to her House, and what befell
him there, related: But neither Constable
nor any of the Watch-men knowing any such Person,
they supposed rightly that he had been drawn in by
a Bawd, and had lain with a Whore, who had together
Cheated him of what he had. For by a Ring on
his Finger, and the Gold Buttons on his Shirt, which
was all he carried off, they supposed his other Rigging
was suitable thereto; which made Mr. Constable
so kind as to lend him his Night-gown, to cover his
Nakedness. And likewise to offer him his assistance,
to recover his Losses; but being in the dark he was
altogether a Stranger to the Place, that he could
give ’em no manner of Directions, so that it
was but like seeking a Needle in a Bottle of Hay.
However they went and search’d several of the
most notorious reputed Bawdy-Houses, but found nothing,
and had only their Labour for their Pains: Whilst
the Bawd and the Whore triumph’d in their wickedness,
and were glad they had met with so easy a Cully, from
whom they had obtain’d so good a Booty.