tho' not so handsome: And they found Trading very sensibly Decay, since
this Fair Sinner was enter'd into the Colledge. And she by her Beauty
having Monopoliz'd the Topping Customers to herself, was look'd upon with
an Envious Eye by all the rest, Who consulting together, found it was
absolutely necessary to give her a remove, but how to do it, was the
Question: At last one of 'em told the rest it shou'd be her Province; and
she wou'd do it effectually, so she as shou'd never know who hurt her: Upon
which, without asking her the means, they left the matter intirely to her.

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