Inclinations, you presently closed withal; which in a little time was, it seems, attended by the Pox; and which besides, many times laid you open to the Cognizance of the Civil Magistrate; and made you afraid of every one you saw; which must needs be a very uneasy Life.—­I can speak some thing of this by my own experience:  For after I had given way to Mr. Bramble_’s desires, and yeilded to his Unlawful Embraces, I was so full of Guilt, that when ever my Husband call’d hastily to me, or spoke in the least angrily, I thought it was to tell me of my playing the Whore with Mr. Bramble, my guilt still flying in my Face; so that I wou’d not be expos’d to the like Fears again, for double the value of what I receiv’d from him.  But having been over come by him, the fear of his exposing of me, as I perceive he intended, had not you helpt me to prevent him, caus’d me to serve him as I did._—­But you cannot imagine, (said she) what a Consternation I was put into the other Night, when a Constable that lives hard by us, and is one of the Society for Reformation, came to our House, and told my Husband he came to tell him of some Discoveries he had lately made, which were worth his hearing:  My blood came all into my Face, and I did not question but that I was to be the Subject of his Discourse.  But when I had heard out his Stories, I was better satisfy’d:  Tho’ they were such as sufficiently declare the Danger, that such as you are dayly in, of being detected, as those were of whom he gave my Husband a Relation:  Which indeed I thought to be diverting enough, as long as it did not concern me.  For tho’ we care not to be expos’d our selves, we are yet ready to take a kind of pleasure in hearing that others are so.

If it were not too great a trouble (said the Bawd) I should be glad to hear what those Discoveries were, that he made to your Husband; which perhaps may be of use to me in knowing how to prevent the like Disasters.

I shall esteem it no trouble (reply’d the Gentlewoman) to tell you any thing I can, that may be serviceable to you; especially, if it may but prevail with you to leave off a Calling that is so hazardous as well as wicked—­But that will be more proper to discourse, when I have given you the Constable’s Relation; and that I shall give you in his own words; which were as follows: 

Being resolved, if possible, to prevent all that Debauchery that is acted in the Streets of this great City every Night, I dress’d up my self as like a Beau as possibly I could, and then taking my short Staff in my Pocket, I went t’other Night abroad, to see what Discoveries I could make:  And as I went along the Strand, I met with a young Woman by the New Exchange, who pretending to stumble, catch’d hold of my Coat, to save her self from falling, and begg’d my Pardon for her Rudeness:  I soon understood her meaning, and looking upon her to be one of those Cattle I was in quest of, I ask’d her whither she was going?  She told me as far