_Shar._ It was so, Sir; but young Girls can't keep now adays, so I ran away with him from the Boarding School. I had two Children by him every ten months for six Years, and I had three by him the seventh. _Skin._ Upon my word you are a very good Breeder. _Shar._ Yes Sir, I was always accounted so; besides, Sir, I have had two by him since his Death. _Skin._ How, Madam, since his Death. _Shar._ Yes Sir, and I am afraid I shall have some more, for a Word in your Ear, Sir--I find I am coming again, Sir.[3] _Skin._ O Fye, Niece, O fye, fye--why Lucy, this Woman is as bad as her Brother. _Lucy._ Indeed Sir, I am afraid so. (_Aside_) _Skin._ But I'll try her a little further. Pray Niece, who has been your Companion _and Bedfellow_ for these two years past? For I presume you have not lain alone. _Shar._ O Lord, Sir, not for the World! You must know, Uncle, I am greatly addicted to be afraid of Spirits, Ghosts, Witches, and Fairies, and so to prevent terrifying Dreams and Apparitions, _I took a Religious Gentleman, a very good Man to bed with me--an Itinerant Methodist, one Doctor Preach Field_. _Skin._ Doctor Preach Field. I have heard of him. _Shar._ O he's a very good man, Uncle, I assure you, _and very full of the Spirit_. _Skin._ Lucy, have not I got a hopeful parcel of Relations? (_Aside_) _Lucy._ Indeed Sir, I think this Lady is not extremely modest. (_Aside_) _Skin._ Why she ought to be whipped at the Cart's Tail (_Aside_); pray Niece, have not you a Brother in Town? _Shar._ Yes Sir; he and I beat the Watch last night at Tom Kings. _Skin._ O Monstrous! beat the Watch, Madam! _Shar._ Yes Sir, and broke all the Lamps in the Parish. _Skin._ Very pretty Employment for a Lady truly, and so, Madam, you came to Town merely to shew your Duty and Affection to me. _Shar._ Yes Sir, and in hopes to be your Heir; we had a Report in the Country that you was Defunct; and I was in hopes to have found it true. _Skin._ I am obliged to you, Madam. _Shar._ There is another thing we have very current in the Country. I do not know how true it is. _Skin._ What is it, I pray? _Shar._ I have been told, Uncle, and from very good Hands, that you are little better than a Thief. _Skin._ Madam! _Shar._ And that you got all your Fortune by biting and sharping, extortion and cheating. _Skin._ Harkee Madam, get out of my House this Minute, or I will order somebody to throw you out of the Window. _Shar._ I have heard too that for several years past, you have been an old Fornicator, and that you have led a most wicked Life with this Girl. _Lucy._ With me, Madam? _Shar._ Yes, you naughty Creature, and _that your Fornication would have had carnal symptoms, but that he took most unnatural methods to prevent your Pregnancy_. _Skin._ Get out of my Doors this Minute. _Shar._ Sir, you are an uncivil Gentleman to bid me get out, but I find you are as great a Rogue as the most malicious Report can make you. _Skin._ Get out of my House, I say!