The two gallants, in the course
of this expedition, were said to use the most perfidious means to
intoxicate the passions of their mistresses by mixing drugs with
their wine, which inflamed their constitutions to such a degree, that
they fell an easy sacrifice to the appetites of their conductors,
who, upon their return to town, were so base and inhuman as to boast
among their companions of the exploit they had achieved. Thus the
story was circulated, with a thousand additional circumstances to
the prejudice of the sufferers, one of whom had thought proper to
withdraw into the country, until the scandal raised at her expense
should subside; while the other, who was not so easily put out
of countenance, resolved to outface the report, as a treacherous
aspersion, invented by her lover as an excuse for his own inconstancy;
and actually appeared in public, as usual, till she found herself
neglected by the greatest part of her acquaintance.
In consequence of this disgrace, which she knew not whether to
impute to the card affair, or to the last faux pas she had committed,
she now came to consult the conjurer, and signified her errand, by
asking whether the cause of her present disquiet was of the town or
the country.
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