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which the late Proclamation fell my Heaven, than give it 5 is levell'd. I was firit betray'd by keeping C company with a Lady that was not over modeft, but not to engage my self,

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vers'd the Pall-Mall, and read the Face of every unmask'd Lady I met; and if 'mask'd, Iftarted fome Quefti

on that fill gave me an Indi'cation of their Temper, endevouring to light upon as

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'till one of her Gallants weakned my refolves, and at laft I know not what; but I was ruin'd, for all my Refolves are now too weak to refift, never being able to hold out a quar

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refin'd, yet modeft Piece of'ter of a Year together; but

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Wickednels as I could; at laft having made. (as I thought) the best of the Market, away we walk'd to drink upon the Bargain. So after feveral Glaffes, fome little infignificant Prittle-prattle, I fix'd my Eyes upon her, and faid-Madam, * methinks I read fome Lines and Charaders of Goodness in your Face, which are not yet abfolutely defac'd: Your Educati

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fecure my Honour for this once by Secrecy, and not watching me to my Lodgings: And I hope the Novelty of this Enterprize may have Effects upon me, and keep me from doing fuch Actions as must be repented of, or I am undone.

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The next Attack was a City Madam, with a Melancholy Air in her Face, which put me upon acting as follows: After having drunk a Glafs or Two, fhe began to 'draw a little too near me; whereupon I rofe up, and with as fevere a Look as I cou'd affect, I faid, Madam, keep off, you think I'm Flefo and Blood, and I doubt not but that I imitate it near enough to deceive your Eyes; affure your felf I am not what I appear: "Reclaim your Whoredoms, or you are loft, you have but a little Time left, make good Ufe of it, if you are otherwife refolu'd, view thefe Features, and expect me to be a Witness against you at the Day of Judgment. Here the waxed pale, and fwooned away, and as foon as he came to her

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on, I'm confident has not been unhappy: Pray be free, and tell me, Are you yet Proof against the Lathes of your Confcience Sir (faid, the) your Defign I know not, but I dare not believe it to be Ill, you having made fuch an inquifitive Prologue. No indeed (reply'd I my Request proceeds purely from a generous Pity at 4 your Misfortunes, which are fufficiently flavish. Alas Sir!" (faid fe, and figh'd) 'tis a flavifh Riddle, to chufe what I bate; I have repeated thefe Actions, but never without regret and felf-abhorrency for Tuch a Folly: This I had peculiar to my felf, that I never was Mercenary, thinking it a greater Balenefs to

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felf again I left her; and en-
quiring the next Day about
her, I heard fhe took me for a
Spirit, and was refolv'd to
follow the Advice of her
ftrange Monitor.

The Third was a Savoy-Bird,
well skill'd in Confidence and

having no Way left to get her Bread, and not being able to work, took up this Courfe, which (faid fhe) at firit was very afflicting and uneafie to my Confcience, but had worn off by degrees; tho' after all, I cou'd with I

the Depth of Pockets, but fohad begg'd rather than liv'd

fimple and foolish in all her Answers, that I think nothing can reclaim her but Af fictions. Such Wretches per

thus diflatisfy'd; for I have loft my Credit, am ashamed of my Friends, afraid of my Enemies, and which is yet

haps may deserve a particularworfe, fee no Probability of Way of Treating in the new Measures of Reformation.

The next Enterprize was an old Friend, a Companion of mine, whom I overtook Ca<reffing a Lady near the MayPole in the Strand, but being not certain, I kept behind

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living under better Circumftances in my Life, and muit die without hopes of mending it in the other World.

The Sixth and laft Enterprive was fo like the Story of Paphnutius's Converting a Harlot, that I fhall tell that

'em till they came to Slane,only, perhaps not yet known

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to every Body: He put on the Habit of a Soldier, and went to an infamous Houfe, and choofing his Woman, he defired to go with her into a private Room, where none might fee him; fhe brought him into a Chamber, which

where feeing 'em turn down, I made a Halt, and they came came up again prefently into the Strand; fo refolving to be fatisfy'd, I made np to: 'em, and by asking What is't a Clock? difcover'd the Truth of the Matter; the Lady finding my Acquain-he objects against, as not priC Friend, fcowr'd off; and he feeing < himself discover'd, begg'd my ‹ Silence, and promis'd a Reformation, which I hopevate Room in the Houfe: he has kept to ever fince,

tance

with my

vate enough; the brings him into another, againit which he allo objected; at last fe brings him into the most pri

He looks about every Way,

having given me fuch Satis-and asks if they were fecure

faction as argues his Sincerity in this Affair.

The Fifth Engagement occafion'd this Confeflion, That <fhe had an eafie tender Educa

there? And if none faw em? She answer'd, None but GOD or the Devil. And believeit thou, faid he, that there is a GOD? She an

<tion, but her Brother grewfwered, Yes. And believeit

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Vol. III. did believe it. Aud fhall we, grecableness of her Temper, Drefs, faid he, Sin fo thamefully &c. fo that he feem'd to have under the Eye of the moita peculiar Averfion aud AntipaFuft Fudge that feeth all thy against her; his Thoughts Things? Hereupon the had almost continually being fix'd ( nothing to fay for her felf, upon her when abfent, and his but fetched a deep Sigh, be- Eyes when prefent; till at last, ing atham'd of her wicked by degrees, all thofe difpleafing Life; and lived afterwards Things feem'd to vanish, and be on Bread and Water, not fell most defperately in Love with daring to take the Name of her, and wou'd have made the 'GOD into her Mouth, but moft paffionate Addreffes, but that frequently repeated these he thought he foou'd be deny'd, Words, Thou who haft made which he believes wou'd certainme, have Mercy on me, and foly kill him: Query, What's the 'The continued Three Yeats and Caufe of this? died. To this Conviction our prefent Inftance agrees, and we are not without Hopes of like Effects in the reit. Gentlemen, If the Time and Moneys fpent in thefe Six Nights Rambles, may reclaim < or hinder the Debauchery of one tingle Perfon, I fhall think it worth all my Labour.

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A. The Story is fo odd, that were we not certain of the probity of him who fent it, we thou'd doubt the Matter of Fact. But being affured thereof, muft endeavour to fearch into the Reafon of the Thing:

-Tho' at first Glance any Lover wou'd be apt to reflect on the Folly of fuch an Undertaking; and ask us what we meant to do, to fearch for a Reafon for what's fo perfectly unaccountable and unreafona

We might be fuller in our Accounts of this Nature, and of the Methods of redreffing fuch Evils, but a worthy Gen-ble. The old Poets wou'd fay, tleman, who is very inftrumen- 'twas the arch Wagg Cupid was tal in this begun Reformation, the Cause of this itrange Achas already drawn up an A, cident; who feeing how highwhich is Printed, and Intitu- ly the Gentleman fcorn'd the led, An At for the more effectu-poor Wench for her uglinefs, al reftraining and fuppreffing of which fhe could not help, took divers notorious Sins, and Refor-a Fegary to give him a touch of mation of the Manners of the his Art, and out of a Piece People of this Nation; which of Justice or Revenge, make 'tis hoped the next Seffions of him fall in Love with her. Parliament will take particular The molt probable Account we Notice of, in order to the Ends can give on't is, that through defigned by it. a ftrange Inconftancy in NaQ. A Cow-keeper's Daughter ture, and defectibility in Judgbecame very remarkable to a Gen-ment, her Deformities inade tleman, y Reafon of the ftrange lefs and lefs Impreffions upon Deformity of her Perfon, dija-him; till at last it's probable

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he discover'd in her fome real | or fancy'd Beauties or Excellencies, which drowned the Memory of the other, and reduced the unhappy Gentleman into fo ftrange a Condition. Q. How fall a Woman that is plagued with an ill Husband, reclaim or make him better?

Ends of Life; left he make both her, himself, and perhaps many others miferable.

Q. A Lady of good Birth and Fortune has granted fome private Favours to me, but at the fame Time fo difcreetly, as to preferve her Reputation. A Friend of mine Courts her bo4. Show him this Mercury nourably, and defires of me to and tell him, if he don't tell him unfeignedly my Opinion mend, his Name fhall be prin- of her Vertue: Query, How I ted in it at Length, the first hall behave my felf in this Cafe, Teufday of the next Month. fo as not to tranfgrefs the Rules But to be graver, the best Di-of Honour nor Friendship? rection that can be given in fo general a Cafe, is to be as patient as poffible; unless the Husband's fuch a Brute, that this Manner of Behaviour will but make him more infulting.

4. If by that Expreffion, fome private Favours, be meant what every one will futpect that reads the Queftion, all the Anfwer we'll give is, Marry her quickly your felf; for till that's done whate'er fine Names you put upon the Matter, You're a

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Q. If any fingle Man who is much in Debt, and can't conveniently live unmarried, bas aa fair offer with a Woman of a Q. How that Perfon is to begood Fortune, by which he might have himself, who has a Ladies pay all his Debts, and live com- Confent; put at prefent for fortably in the World Whe-fome private Reafons, or jor ther he is oblig'd to make her want of a Fortune, is not peracquainted with his Circum-mitted to marry her? fances when he Courts her, and fo run the hazard of not obtain-tune, nor a Profpect of any, ing her?

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A. If he neither has a For

we think he'd do generously to Release her, had the any advantageous Offers ; and this fome Years after he may perhaps with he had done, when his Kindnets cools, or he has fafted fo long, till he has quite

4. By no means, every Man being to make the Best of himfelf and his Fortunes, that he honestly can; but he firft ought in this Cafe to take a particular Care that he ben't cheated; and fo in a worfe Con-loit his Stomach. But if no dition than before, Nor fuch thing happens, there's ought he actually to affirm but one Way for him to take; himself worth more than he and that is, to be as patient as really is, nor to marry any he can, fince after all, he muit Perfon without a fufficient For-be fo whether he will or no: In tune to dilcharge his Obliga- the mean time, not to prefs her tions, and anfwer to the other he pretends to Love to luch a

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Marriage, as, whatever he is courted by feveral Gentlemen, flatters himself, will in their Circumftances certainly render 'em both very miferable.

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QA Young Man being gone to Sea, and staying there from his Wife eighteen Months, he in the mean time marries another: Query, At the Return of the firft Husband, whofe Wife fhall The be?

A. If the first were really and effectually married to her, fhe must be his ftill, if he has a Mind to take her agen, and thinks her ne'er the worfe for wearing.

Q. Whether a Young Lady ought in Reafon or Prudence, to keep by her, after Joe's married, any Letters or Pictures from any of her former Lovers ?

but her Affections are chiefly on a Perfon who makes no outward Pretention, left thereby it may fruftrate both their Designs. Whether he ought to entertain the said Pretenders, fince she does it only to amufe fome about her, without a ny Intentions ofhaveing 'em? Or what other honourable Courfe may she take therein?

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4. The entertaining fuch Pretenders were, we own, a fure, tho' fcarce a handsom Way of keeping the real Amour private. But the Entertaining any Gentleman gaging his Affections, and giving him hopes without any Intention to make him happy, we look upon to be both fo A. It may feem in it felf unjuft, cruel, and ungenerous an indifferent Thing, unless in an Action, that no Cuitom can fome few Circumstances, which excufe it, no Neceffity defend totally alter the Cafe. One, it, no good End fanctifie fo if the Husband be inclin'd to bafe a Means. As for that Jealoufie; the other, if the Queftion, What other honourLady, when marry'd, lov'd any able Courfe fhe may take therein? other Perfon more than her If thofe about her whom the Husband, whofe Letters or mentions, are her Parents, she Pictures might, on that Ac- ought to do nothing against count, be as dangerous for her their Confent. If only Friends, to keep about her, as on the o- but fuch as fhe'd yet keep her ther imprudent. There may Amours private from, either yet be one Cafe more, where- for quiet lake, or other Reain it mayn't be convenient for fons; fhe can't want Ways to her to keep any thing of a do it more honourably, than former Lovers, but either to that he has here propofed. It reitore or burn it: And that being in her Power to entertain is, when there is a probability the favour'd Lover as privatefuch Perfons may think orly as the thinks fit, and at the fpeak unhandfomly of her, if fame Time find Excufes enough fhe keep fuch things; and be- to put off the reit. ing enraged at her Lofs, they Q. In your Vol. 2. A Mother may eafily enough take Oc-and a Miftrifs being at the fame cafion to do it. time in great and equal Danger, which is a Man oblig'd to fave,

Q. There's a Young Lady who

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