y: And
then Pray to all the Blessed Saints above that are Protectors of Chastity,
that they wou'd miraculously restore your Nose and Beauty again; and soon
after, break out into Thanksgivings for having your Nose restored; and this
will pass for a Miracle, and so Vindicate your Innocency that you will
never more be suspected. And I hope you will make me amends for what I have
suffer'd for you. This the young Lady faithfully promis'd; and so the Bawd
went home to provide for her own Cure, leaving the Lady fast ty'd as she
was at first by her Husband.

The Bawd was no sooner gone, and the Coast clear, but the Lady, fetching a
great sigh, breaks forth into this doleful Lamentation,--_O unhappy Woman!
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
muc