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have any thing more to ſay to you. Which reſolution the Doctor finding himſelf unable to alter, ſhe put on her cloaths with all the haſte ſhe could, and taking a horſe, which ſhe had bought a few days before, haſtened inſtantly out of the town, and made the beſt of her way, thro’ bye-roads and acroſs the country, into ſomerſetſhire, milling Exeter, and every other great town which lay in the road.
And well it was for her, that ſhe uſed both this haſte and precaution: For Mr. Ivythorn having heard his daughter's ſtory, immediately obtained a warrant from a juſtice of peace, with which he preſently diſpatch’d the proper officers; and not only ſo, but ſet forward himſelf to Exeter, in order to try if he could learn any news of his ſon-in-law, or apprehend her there; till after much ſearch being unable to hear any tidings of her, he was obliged to ſet down contented with his misfortune, as was his poor daughter to ſubmit to all the ill-natured ſneers of her own ſex, who were often witty at her expence, and at the expence of their own decency.
The Doctor having eſcaped, arrived ſafe at Wells in ſomerſetſhire, where thinking herſelf at a ſafe diſtance from her purſuers, ſhe again ſat herſelf down in queſt of new adventures.
She had not been long in this city, before ſhe became acquainted with one Mary Price, a girl of about eighteen years of age, and of extraordinary beauty. With this girl, hath this wicked woman ſince her confinement declared, ſhe was really as much in love, as it was poſſible for a man ever to be with one of her own ſex.
The firſt opportunity our Doctor obtain’d of converſing cloſely with this new miſtreſs, was at a
