The Jilt, to whom the Business was left was very Witty, but had but just Beauty enough to keep her from being Ugly, and consequently one that suffer’d most by this new Interloper; which rendered her so Malicious, that she had rather the whole House shou’d be blown up, than that Upstart shoul’d run away with all the Trading:  And therefore she Writes the following Letter to her Husband.

To Mr. R——­d S——­n, These:

SIR,

Tho’ I never was ambitious of the Honnour of being an Informer, yet the Sense I have of the Wrongs you suffer from a Wife that abuses your good Nature, and under a Pretence of Devotion prostitutes her Chastity, to every libidinous Stallion, thereby breaking her Marriage Vow, and Dishonouring the Marriage-Bed; has prevail’d with me to let you know so much.  And tho’ an Information of this kind may perhaps hardly be believed; Yet if you will but give your self the Trouble of following her Incognito_ any Morning, you may easily satisfy your self, whether the Account I have given you be true or no:  And the better to enable you to detect her in her Lewd Practices, when you have seen her Hous’d a little while, you may go in after her; altho’ without a Particular Recommendation, you will hardly be admitted; and therefore if you please to ask for the Gentlewoman of the House, and tell her you was directed thither by Tom Stanhop, to take a Survey of the Ladies in the Dining-Room, she will straight let you see ’em; and after that, you may proceed as you please; and can no longer doubt of the Truth of what I say, if you will but believe your own Eyes.  And if you find it so, I am sure you will be satisfied that I have performed the Office of,_

Your unknown Friend,

A.B.

This Letter she sent by a special Messenger, with order to deliver it only into his own hand, which was done accordingly.  But, when he had read it, he was so extreamly surpriz’d at such an unexpected piece of Intelligence, that he new not what to think of it:  Sometimes he was of opinion that it was only an Artifice of some that envy’d his Happiness in so Vertuous a Wife, to sow Dissention between ’em; but when he was reffer’d to so easie a Trial, he cou’d not but think there was something more in it then so:  Upon which he resolv’d to suspend his Judgment till he had made a farther Trial.  And therefore that afternoon, pretends to have Receive’d a Letter obliging him to meet a Gentleman the next Morning between Four and Five a Clock at Westminster to treat with him about a parcel of Goods which he was to go and see, and should not be back again till nine a Clock.  And in the mean time get’s him a very Beauish Suit, Wig, and Hat, and plants ’em at a Friends House; ready to put on in the Morning when he came thither.  The next Morning rises very early, pursuant to his Design; and having gone to his Friends House, and accouter’d himself in his new Habilments, which had so disguis’d