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<HEAD>The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Womens Cha&s;tity; OR, The la&s;t SUNDAY Nights Frolick: Being a very True ACCOUNT of <HI>Three Eminent Citizens of London.</HI> Who by a &s;ttange Mi&s;take, unfortunatly Pickt up their own WIVES, la&s;t SUNDAY-Evening, in St. JAMES's Park; Whom they Treated with a Supper very Splendidly, at an Eminent Tavern, near CHARING-CROSS: With the Manner of their Di&s;covery; and of the great Confu&s;ion of the whole Company thereupon. <HI>Being, indeed, not only a very Plea&s;ant, but al&s;o a True Relation.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT was upon a Sunday Night (to &s;anctifie the Deed) when three Strowling Citizens, of &s;upe|rior Note, relea&s;'d from <HI>Purgatory</HI> of a Compter, determin'd to gratifie their Lungs with a little fre&s;h air, and after the duty of the day was over, which no doubt they had performed with the u&s;ual City devotion, they very amicably took a Walk into St. <HI>James</HI>'s Park:</P>
<P>The Matrons at home, being Ladies of &s;ingular Intelligence&punc; were timely enough acquainted with their Husbands determination, Mrs. <HI>A&mdash;</HI>having the fir&s;t advice brought to her, po&s;ted away with mighty Expedition to Mrs E&mdash;'s, where the matter was not long a debating, being Ladies of an admirable invention; and the Re&s;olve was, that they &s;hould put on di&s;gui&s;es, and go <HI>incognito</HI> in pur&s;uit of their Husbands, that care and plea&s;ure &s;hould &s;eparatly occupy the Fa|mily. The Ladies thus equipped, pur&s;ued their Stratagem in Ma&s;querade, and &s;oon arrived at the Park; where they were often attacked by the Beaux and Sparks, but they being in que&s;t of a Nobler Game (tho naturally coming and complying enough) did very tyranically repul&s;e all the Court&s;hip and Solicitations of the&s;e Gallants&punc; and very bravely made good their way, till at length they came in view of their appointed Quarry, and drawing towards them with all the Tricks and Artifices of Women of the Town. Mr. A&mdash;made the motion to meet them, and carry them to a Gla&s;s of Wine, being of an even number, and promi&s;ing well enough to de&s;erve their fare, the motion was agreed to by the other two, and referred to Mr. A&punc; be|ing a Man of the greate&s;t A&s;&s;urance and Pre&s;ence of Mind) to manage; and accordingly, <HI>Don Formali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;o,</HI> with a <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Stiffne&s;s, makes up to the Ladies, and acco&s;ts them with Tropes and Figures, and a dull Harangue of Co&s;tive Rhetorick, (his natural Stile, wherein he excu&s;eth the Mode&s;tly and Ba&s;hfulne&s;s of his two friends, tho' <HI>Citts,</HI> and Married too; yet for them and him &s;elf he gave them a hearty invitation to a <HI>Gla&s;s of Wine.</HI> The Ladies gave their con&s;ent by their Silence; or by &s;aying very little at mo&s;t, being &s;paring of their &s;pecch, for fear of Di&s;covering them&s;elves; &s;o, in &s;hort, every on takes his Bird, and ha&s;tes to a certain Tavern at <HI>Charing-Gro&s;s;</HI> knowing the nights being &s;hort, their Wives would look for them home in good time, or el&s;e lead 'em a weary Life all the week after, with hard &s;ervice in bed and hard Bargains i'th Shop, as &s;oon as they came to the Tavern, like generous Hearts, they &s;poke for a Supper of a Price, and orderd it to be ha&s;tned with all Speed, and in the mean time call'd mo&s;t incontinently for Wine, and drank very freely whil&s;t Supper was making ready; But here was the mo&s;t deverting Scene as Fortune would have it, who &s;eldom &s;tumbles over or interupts &s;uch intrigues, each makes choi&s;e of his own wife, whither for Rallary, or the la&s;t Favours I know not, (an unhappy choi&s;e and a &s;ign that they did not know them; And here they all &s;trove for the mo&s;t &s;oft and engaging Expre&s;&s;ions of <HI>Love,</HI> and here they boa&s;t|ed and bounced of &s;trenuous Vigour, and youthful performances, which the&s;e di&s;gui&s;ed Ladies had too often found experimentally fal&s;e, in the di&s;con&s;olat and legitimate bed, and yet perhaps the&s;e Gentlemen might have been &s;incere too, <HI>For &s;ome can never do the Trick to Per|fection, but in a Baudy bou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>But, by this time Supper was brought up, and the conditions ended that they mu&s;t now Unmask, which when the waiters were commanded to retire, they performed, and put an end to the Farce by di&s;covering them&s;elves to be their wives, and the whole company 3 whole pair of Legitimate Upholders of the race man, Tho I think they had not been very &s;ucce&s;&s;full neither.</P>
<P>But here you may imagine what a &s;urprize &amp; confu&s;ion aro&s;e in the whole company, &amp; had not the &s;parks been very generous in their <HI>entertainment,</HI> they had not been con&s;iderable &s;ufferers with the plea&s;ure of the Di&s;covery, and the Diver&s;ion of good Wine, and a Supper, which in the mid&s;t of all their Pa&s;&s;ion, they were too wi&s;e to &s;poil, the Ladies were &s;o far mitigated as to keep the King's <HI>Peace,</HI> and their Fingers off their Husbands Faces. So, in &s;hort the Com|pany &s;oon broke up, and they all parted, the Wives to the <HI>Triumph of their Di&s;covery,</HI> and the Husbands to the <HI>Severe&s;t Di&s;cipline</HI> that ever Men, be&s;ides <HI>Cools, Culles,</HI> and <HI>Cits,</HI> were ex|po&s;ed to&punc; This Frolick was performed on <HI>Sunday</HI> la&s;t.</P>
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