 Home with me to my Lodging, tho' I would
not ask him to go in, for I told him it was not Decent.
    In short, I ventur'd to avoid Signing a Contract, and the Reason why I did
it, was because the Lady that had Invited me to go with her into Lancashire
insisted so possitively upon it, and promised me such great Fortunes, and fine
things there, that I was tempted to go and try; perhaps, said I, I may mend my
self very much, and then I made no scruple of quitting my honest Citizen, whom I
was not so much in Love with as not to leave him for a Richer.
    In a Word, I avoided a Contract; but told him I would go into the North,
that he would know where to write to me by the Business I had entrusted with
him, that I would give him a sufficient Pledge of my Respect for him, for I
would leave almost all I had in the World in his Hands; and I would thus far
give him my Word, that as soon as he had sued out the Divorce, if he would send
me an Account of it, I would come up to London, and that then we would talk
seriously of the Matter.
    It was a base Design I went with, that I must confess, tho' I was invited
thither with a Design much worse, as the Sequel will discover; well I went with
my Friend, as I call'd her, into Lancashire; all the way we went she caressed me
with the utmost appearance of a sincere undissembled Affection; treated me,
except my Coach-hire all the way; and her Brother brought a Gentleman's Coach to
Warrington to receive us, and we were carried from thence to Liverpool with as
much Ceremony as I could desire.
    We were also entertain'd at a Merchant's House in Liverpool three or four
Days very handsomely: I forbear to tell his Name, because of what follow'd; then
she told me she would carry me to an Uncle's House of hers where we should be
nobly entertain'd; and her Uncle, as she call'd him, sent a Coach and four
Horses for us, and we were carried near forty Miles I know not whither.
    We came however to a Gentleman's Seat, where was a numerous Family, a large
Park, extraordinary Company indeed, and where she was call'd Cousin; I told her
if she had resolv'd to bring me into such Company as this
