with a greater Affliction than to be thus under a Notion of being Married,
depriv'd of the true ends of Marriage: 'Tis like being married without a
Husband, to be married to such a Husband as can do nothing. You know Madam,
we are commanded to increase and multiply: But let the Soyl be fruitful as
it will, there's no encrease can be expected where no Seed is sown. This,
Madam, makes me bold to tell you, that you are wanting to your self, and to
the end of your Creation, if you don't find out ways to supply that defect
and disability, which through Extremity of Age your Husband labours under.
I am acquainted, with a Gentleman, brisk, young and airy, One that's in the
Flower of his Youth; That I am surely would gladly sacrifice himself and
all he has to serve a Lady in your Circumstances; and I have that
compassion for your Suffering that I would gladly lend my helping hand to
bring so good a work as that about, that you might reap that Satisfaction
which your Youth and Beauty calls for, and which your Husband is too
impotent to give you._

The Bawd having made an end of her Harangue, the Gentlewoman told her she
was much oblig'd to her for that sense she had of her Condition, which she
acknowledg'd to be what she represented it: But told her she durst not make
use of the Remedy, she had propounded, First, because it was Sinful, and
Secondly because it was very hazardous; for her Husband being sensible of
his own Imbecility, was so extreamly Jealous, tho she had never given him
any Cause, it would render all attempts of that Nature very difficult to
manage; and it would be much better to desist from attempting it, than to
Miscarry in the Attempts.

The cunning Bawd observing that tho the young Gentlewoman had mention'd the
Sinfulness of what she had propounded to her, yet she did not so much
insist upon that, as on the hazard and difficulty of attempting it; which
gave her so much Encouragement of Succeeding, that she told her, as to the