Twenty Shillings to buy a Coffin for me, as thinking I shou'd ne'er
Recover; whereas before, as I have since been told by the Executors, he
design'd at least a hundred Pounds for me.

The great Expences of my Sickness (which had besides made me unfit for
Business) had brought me pretty low; and I was now quite destitute of any
other way to help my self but the old Trade of Whoring; and yet I was
afraid of being now a Common Night-walker, lest I shou'd meet with such
another Job as I had met withal before; which wou'd have ruin'd me to all
Intents and Purposes: But by a Friend of mine, that had been a Well-wisher
to the calling, I was advis'd, as much the safer way, to list my self as a
Retainer to a Private _Vaulting School_; where I was told (and indeed found
it so) that there were none admitted but what were Sound and Tight. To
this, altho the Gains to me was less, yet since there was less hazard of
the Pox, I thought it best to hire my self: And this Madam, was such a
House as now I keep my self. Where we don't only take special care, that
none but what are free from all Distempers be admitted; but likewise have
Surgeons and Apothecaries with whom we are in Fee, who, if we but suspect
the least miscarriage, straight give us something that may carry't off.

Here I continued for some time: and tho I say't, behav'd my self so well,
that I was prefer'd to the best Gentlemen; for tho, my Natural Beauty had
been much decay'd, yet I by Art so patch'd it up again, that I by my good
Management, pass'd for a Maid at first to all that didn't know me: And
besides what my Mistress got, I am sure I had ten Guineas given me by an
Esquire for parting with my Maiden-head; which I had parted with many years
past; and yet I sold it to new Customers several times after.

During the time that I was in this Station, I met with several odd
Adventures; some of which I shall briefly give you an account of.