much surprized at this sudden accident, and I seemed to be so; and quickly getting my cloaths, arose and left him, retiring into my own Chamber, leaving him to consider it. I having now done my business, by having a witness of my lying with him, was bold with him, to know what I should do in the case; _for_ said I, _my Masters Brother will certainly acquaint my Mr. and Mrs. with our actions, and then I must leave the house, and whither to go, I know not, nor who will entertain me_. He argued that the other, my first Sweetheart, must provide for me; to this I told him, _that I believed, that he would do somewhat for me, but he had a Wife, and could not do what he listed, whereas he on the contrary was a single man, and rich enough_; and he still endeavouring to put me off, and lay all upon the first; I in plain terms told him, _that if he continued to say so, I would wholly deny my dealings with the other, and though he should avouch it, yet he would not be believed, he being himself a party guilty, as could be proved by my Masters Brother; and therefore it would be judged by all, that he, and he alone, was the Father of the Child, and would be forced to marry me, or at least provide for me and the Child_. I having told him my resolution, left him to consider of it, and then my Masters Brother came to him, and he and I together so ordered the matter, that he gave me 20_l._ down, and gave me bond to pay 50_l._ more at the Birth of the Child. This, said Mrs. _Dorothy_, was the first of my adventures. _And this shall be the last I shall relate to you in this part, referring the prosecution of hers, and others adventures, to a third part._ _FINIS._ * * * * * * Transcriber’s note: Every attention was paid to retaining the spelling and punctuation of the original, with a few exceptions, noted below. On occasion, obvious printer’s errors have been modified; e.g. the repetition of words or syllables at line breaks. The spelling has been left intact, except where there are obvious printer’s errors, or where a more conventional spelling is employed in every other instance. Minor inconsistencies in punctuation have also been corrected, without further mention. The cover image has been fabricated and is placed in the public domain. On p. 223, the Latin quotation from Petronius includes the name ‘Aerisium’, which, in the following translation is given as ‘Acresius’. The entire passage from ‘It can make knees bow...’, including the citation from Petronius, seems to have been cribbed from Owen Feltham’s _Resolves: divine, morall and politicall_, where ‘Acrisium’ appears. Feltham died the year our volume was published, and his _Resolves_ was a very popular in the day and continued to be republished into the 19th century. The following table summarizes the issues encountered, and their resolution: p. x inclina[na]tion Removed.