It is a Story worth your hearing, _reply'd the Bawd_; and if you please
I'll give you the Relation of it, as I had it from one of the Gentlemen
concern'd therein. _You will Oblige me very much_; answer'd the Lady.
Whereupon the Bawd thus began.

It happened that two Gentlemen belonging to the Army (of which the one was
my Particular Acquaintance, and a good Customer to my House) taking Water
at the _Still-yard_, was minded to divert themselves upon the River, by
going up to _Chelsie_-Reach; where they sometimes met with pretty Ladies
proper for their Purpose, But as they were going along, they perceived a
very fine Gentlewoman in a rich Garb, in a _Sculler_, all alone; and also
observed that she made the _Sculler_, who was a good likely Young Man, row
her sometimes one way, and sometimes another, without going to any certain
Place. This gave 'em occasion to Conjecture that she had appointed some
Spark or other to meet her thereabouts, whose coming she expected with some
Impatience; as they easily perceiv'd:

_For that which frets a Woman most,_
_Is when her Expectation's crost._

After she had near half hour in that manner fluctuated to and fro upon the
silver Surges of _Thamesis_, like one of the _Nereides_, and found she was
disappointed; she bid the _Sculler_ Land her at the _Three Cranes_, which
he accordingly did; and the Gentlemen likewise order'd their _Oars_ to Land
'em at the same Place; and observ'd, after the Lady was Landed, that the
_Sculler_ ask'd for his Money, and she bid him follow her; and after he
follow'd her into _Thames-street_, he began to grumble, and told her he
cou'd go no further, and therefore he wou'd have his Money; which she wou'd
not give him whithout he went wither she was going, telling him she wou'd
pay him for his time. This made the Gentlemen dog her, and soon after saw