But all this was only like the raking of a few Ashes over live Coals, which
in a little time break forth again, and burn more violently. My Husband's
Impotency being now about Seventy, grew daily more upon him; and my desires
after that due Benevolence he could not give me, still increas'd, so that
what he cou'd not do for me, I was under a necessity of getting done
elsewhere, And knew no other Person to whom I cou'd repair for a Supply,
but he who had so often done it to my own content before: To him therefore
I found means to send a Letter, appointing him to meet me at such a Place
and Time, which he accordingly did, and there we had that mutual Enjoyment
which we both desir'd: And tho' we met thus several times, it was with so
much Caution, for fear of a Discovery, that we were often forc'd to change
both Time and Place, and take new measures.

One Night above the rest, when I was sure he was engag'd to stay late at
the Tavern, I had obliged my Spark to give me a meeting at our House; and
had on that Occasion, sent all the servants up to Bed, upon pretence that
they must must rise early in the Morning. When they were gone to bed, and
all was sure, my Servant enter'd, with all imaginable Privicy and Caution;
and then, without much Ceremony, enter'd upon those melting Joys we both so
eagerly desir'd, Which we had hardly finish'd, before my Husband (who had
dispatched his Business quicker than we had done) knocks at the door; which
I no sooner heard, but springing from the Arms of my affrighted Gallant, I
took a Sheet out of the Chest of Drawers in the Chamber, and tying it with
a Copped Crown upon his Head, I made him look methought just like some
Fornicator, a going to do Pennance in a Parish Church, and then turning him
into the next Room, I bid him, if my Husband came in thither, (who was a
very timerous Man, and almost trembled at the Talk of Spirits) to
Counterfeit a Ghost, by which means I wou'd quickly use a Stratagem which
shou'd Relieve him without Danger. And as soon as he had put himself into a
Suitable Posture, and Plac'd himself in a convenient Corner to play the