riſe immediately and come to him, and in the mean Time was ſo eager in contemplating the Beauty of Innocence, appearing in thoſe lively Colours with which Infancy and Sleep always diſplay it, that his Thoughts were too much engaged to reflect that he was in his Shirt, when the Matron came in. She had indeed given her Maſter ſufficient Time to dreſs himſelf; for out of Reſpect to him, and Regard to Decency, ſhe had ſpent many Minutes in adjuſting her Hair at the Looking-glaſs, notwithſtanding all the Hurry in which ſhe had been ſummoned by the Servant, and tho’ her Maſter, for ought ſhe knew, lay expiring in an Apoplexy, or in ſome other Fit.
It will not be wondered at, that a Creature, who had ſo ſtrict a Regard to Decency in her own Perſon, ſhould be ſhocked at the leaſt Deviation from it in another. She therefore no ſooner opened the Door, and ſaw her Maſter ſtanding by the Bedſide in his Shirt, with a Candle in his Hand, than ſhe ſtarted back in a moſt terrible Fright, and might perhaps have ſwooned away, had he not now recollected his being undreſt, and put an End to her Terrors, by deſiring her to ſtay without the Doortill
