She was hardly gone, but in came queen _Dido_, who the last time I saw her call’d _Virgil_ so many rogues and rascals in my hearing, for raising such a malicious story of her and and the pious _Æneas_; it was a long time before I could get her to tell me what errand she came about: at last, after abundance of blushing, and covering half her face with her hood, _Seignior_ Hanesio, says she, _I doubt not but a person of your experience has observ’d in his time but too many instances of female infirmity. To be plain with you, I am one, and tho’ I made as great a splutter about my virtue as the soundest of my sex, yet I was a damn’d recreant all that while. In short, I find by several indications which I have not nam’d to you, doctor, that I am with child,--and being very tender of my reputation,--which, doctor, is all we poor women have to depend upon,---- and loth to have my good name expos’d in ballads and lampoons.---- I beg the favour of you, dear doctor,---- and you shall find I will gratify you nobly for your pains, to help me to something that shall make me,---- but you know my meaning, doctor.---- To miscarry is it not, Madam? You are in the right on’t, dear Sir, reply’d she. Why then, Madam, I must tell you, are come to the wrong house; for whether you know it or no, I carry a tender conscience about me, mind me what I say, I carry a tender conscience about me, and would not be guilty of such a wicked thing as you mention for the world. But there is an_ Italian _son of a whore at the corner of the street, that will poison you and the child in your belly, and half the women in the city for half a crown. You may make your application to him, if you think fit, but for my part, Madam, I’ll be perjur’d for no body; for as I told you before, my conscience is tender_: Upon this our famous _coquette_ immediately withdrew in a great deal of confusion, and curs’d me plentifully in her gizzard, I don’t question.