The next Morning they went into Paul’s Church-Yard to make the Lady a visit, but past many times to & fro before the Door, but cou’d’nt get a sight of her.  In the Afternoon they came again, and having waited up and down about an hour, they at last saw her in the Shop, and knew her to be the same Person:  Whereupon going into the Shop they ask’d her to see some of the best Scarlet-Cloth, and whilst the other Gentleman was busie in choosing the Cloth, my Friend took an opportunity to tell the Lady what a Passion he had for her, and how ready he wou’d be to serve her with the greatest hazard, and how he hop’d to be made happy with the enjoyment of her last Favours; but she seeming to be mightily affronted at his Discourse, told him, That if he did’nt leave off prating at that rate to her, she would call to her Man to Kick him out of the Shop:  Which disdainful Carriage did so much exasperate him, that he replyed with some heat, Why Madam, do you think I cann’t do your Business as well as John did, at the Three-Cranes Tavern in Thame-street, last Night?  These words made her change as Pale as Death:  Sir, said she, As you are a Gentleman, I hope you won’t expose me:  And I’ll oblige you in what’e’er you ask me.—­Chuse your Cloth, says she, and I’ll come down to you presently.  And then going up Stairs she return’d again in two minutes, and put twenty Guineas into his hands, to pay for the Cloth, appointing to meet ’em at the old Tavern an hour after; which she did accordingly, gratifying both the Gentlemen with the same Favours she had bestow’d the Night before upon John the Waterman, whose Nose these Gentlemen had put out of joint.—­Judge you now, Madam, what a case this Gentlewoman had been in, had she fallen into other hands.  But all such accidents are avoided by those that make use of such a House as mine.

The Bawd having made an End of her Discourse, after a little pause, The Goldsmith’s Lady thus began: 

I return you many Thanks for the Relation of your Life:  Your Advice before has sav’d my Reputation to my Husband and the World; which he who had first Tempted me to Lewdness, and overcame me through the Love of Money, would have afterwards Expos’d; for which I think my self oblig’d to you:  But the Relation you have now given me, has Oblig’d me much more; for it has made me quite out of Love with the Trade you have all along follow’d; if for nothing else, because of the Dangers that attend it.  For if you look back, and reflect upon your first going astray, it was full of danger and hazard; and how private so ever you thought you were in it, yet it could not escape your Husbands Jealousie and Mistrust; and at last, when you least suspected it, was fully discover’d by your Gallant himself.  And that occasion’d your being turn’d out of Doors; and that taking all sense of shame from you, (as you well observed) exposed you to a thousand Temptantions; which being suited to your own Natural