him that you must needs speak with him about earnest Business, and when he’s come, tell him that you expect your Husband the next day; and therefore beg the Favour of him to let you have his Company that Night, and as an Earnest of your Love to him, & that he should not think you mercenary, you’ll both return him Fifty Guineas, and give him back the Ring he gave your Husband for a Pawn:  And tell him likewise you have engag’d the Maid to Secresie; for which if he presents her with a Guinea, ’tis all he needs to do:  This will, I’m sure engage him; for he’s as Covetous as he is Lustful:  And when he’s thus engag’d, in the next place acquaint your Husband how you cou’d scarce have any quiet in his absence from this young Spark’s continual Solicitations to unlawful Love.  Then tell him that you have appointed him to come that Evening, of which you thought fit to acquaint him, that he might give him that Correction which he saw necessary, to cool his too hot Blood:  This will so much confirm your Husband in his opinion of your inviolable Chastity, that all your Treacherous Gallant shall offer to the contrary will be look’d upon as the Effect of Malice and Revenge.  Thus you’ll confirm your Reputation to the World, and keep these Fifty Guineas he designs to cheat you out of, and be sufficiently reveng’d on an ungrateful Man.

Well (says the injur’d Gentlewoman) I’m pleas’d with your Contrivance; keep but my Counsel, and you shall see my Vengeance on this ungrateful Wretch, and with how just a Retribution I shall use him for his intended Villany.  And that you may be sensible you have not lost your Labour, accept of this; and therewithal she put Ten Guineas in her hand, and promis’d her a further Token of her Gratitude:  And so dismist her.—­The Bawd was well pleas’d with the Mornings Work she’d made; and finding that the Goldsmith’s Wife was like to be the better Customer, she hugg’d her self for her contrivance, and her Treachery to the Cully Beau.

That Afternoon the Wrathful Lady receiv’d a Letter from her Husband, that he intended to be in Town the Thursday following, and desir’d her to meet him that day at Hammersmith about noon, where he wou’d dine with her, and so come home together.  She therefore sent a Messenger to tell her Treacherous Lover she must needs speak with him on Thursday Morning, for she had something of Moment to impart to him; who presently on the receiving of this Note, came to her, fearing there might be some Discovery of their Love-enjoyment.

As soon as he was come, she tells him she was extreamly Troubled she had not seen him since; and that she never had enjoy’d more pleasure than in his Embraces; and understanding that her Husband wou’d be at home on Friday Night, she had contriv’d things so, that he might freely, and without Interruption, lie with her on Thursday Night.  Which she desir’d on the Account of that affection which she had for him, and of the Pleasure which she took