unhappy above all Women! Unhappy in having without cause lost the Love of a
Husband in whom I had plac'd all my Happiness! Unhappy in having my
Reputation taken away by him, and Unhappy in being us'd more barbarously
and Ignominiously by him, than if I were a Common Whore! To have my Nose
thus cut off, and my Beauty defac'd, and all this without Cause; what can
be more barbarously Cruel in him, or render me more miserable! But O ye
Heavenly Powers,_ (added she in a higher Tone, that her Husband might hear
her, which he also did) _if such Powers there be, that are the Protectors
of Chastity, and Vindicators of Innocence, Look down on me, whose Innocence
you know, and hear my Prayers; If I have deviated from the strictest Rules
of Vertue and of Honour, and Violated in the least the marriage Bond that I
have enter'd into; let all your Direful Vengeance fall upon me. But if I
have kept my Chastity inviolate, and never wrong'd my Husbands Bed so much
as in a thought, let my Disfigur'd Face be healed again, and my lost Beauty
and dismembered Nose, which has been taken from me so unjustly, be both
restored again, as a convincing Testimony of my Innocency._

Having ended her Prayer, she stood silent for about half a Quarter of an
Hour; and then, as tho' her Nose had been miraculously reunited to her Face
again, she with a loud Voice broke forth into these Expressions: _O ye
Immortal Powers that knew my spotless and Immaculate (tho Suffering)
Chastity, and have so eminently now rewarded it, accept my Hearty and my
Humble Thanks: For by this Miracle that you have wrought for me, my Husband
surely will believe my Innocency; and I am glad I shall be able at the
Expence of so much blood, and so much Pain and Misery, to let him know how
much he has wrong'd me, and how much I love him: Yes, O ye Powers above,
that have so wonderfully clear'd my Innocency, I do appeal to you how much
I love him, notwithstanding all his Cruelty; for which, O ye Immortal
Powers, I humbly invocate your gracious Pardon, because he did it through
an Excess of Rage, to one whom he Imagin'd had been false._--And then