 Name if I found
Occasion.
    I communicated my Thoughts to my Intimate Friend the Captain's Lady, who I
had so faithfully served in her Case with the Captain; and who was as ready to
serve me in the same kind as I could desire: I made no scruple to lay my
Circumstances open to her, my Stock was but low, for I had made but about 540l.
at the Close of my last Affair, and I had wasted some of that: However, I had
about 460l. left, a great many very rich Cloaths, a Gold Watch, and some Jewels,
tho' of no extraordinary Value, and about 30l. or 40l. left in Linnen not
dispos'd of.
    My Dear and Faithful Friend, the Captain's Wife, was so sensible of the
Service I had done her in the Affair above, that she was not only a steddy
Friend to me, but knowing my Circumstances, she frequently made me Presents as
Money came into her Hands; such as fully amounted to a Maintainance; so that I
spent none of my own; and at last she made this unhappy Proposal to me, viz.
that as we had observ'd, as above, how the Men made no scruple to set themselves
out as Persons meriting a Woman of Fortune of their own; it was but just to deal
with them in their own way, and if it was possible to deceive the Deceiver.
    The Captain's Lady, in short, put this Project into my Head, and told me if
I would be rul'd by her I should certainly get a Husband of Fortune, without
leaving him any room to Reproach me with want of my own: I told her that I would
give up my self wholly to her Directions, and that I would have neither Tongue
to speak, or Feet to step in that Affair, but as she should direct me; depending
that she would Extricate me out of every Difficulty that she brought me into,
which she said she would answer for.
    The first Step she put me upon, was to call her Cousin, and go to a
Relation's House of hers in the Country, where she directed me; and where she
brought her Husband to visit me, and calling me Cousin, she work'd Matters so
about, that her Husband and she together invited me most passionately to come to
Town and live with them, for they now liv'd in a quite different Place from
where they were before. In the next Place she tells her Husband that I had at
least 1500l
