Volume 2

The English rogue : described, in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant being a compleat history of the most eminent cheats of both sexes / [Richard Head and Francis Kirkman].

  • Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
Date:
[1874]
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Credit: The English rogue : described, in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant being a compleat history of the most eminent cheats of both sexes / [Richard Head and Francis Kirkman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ther foon refolved me that I was with Child by you. I was very melancholly upon this occafion, but my Mother indeavoured to comfort me (for I being her only Child) the had a great deal of love for me ; and knowing what was pafs’d could not be helped, fhe took order to conceal and keep the knowledge of my misfortune from being publiquely known and difcourfed of; Wherefore I, at her defire and dire6tions, kept within doors, pretending a ficknefs, which indeed was not wholly counterfeit, in regard I much grieved for your abfence. In this condition I fpent my time, till the time of my deliverance from Child- bearing came, and then I was brought to bed of a Boy, which was no fooner born, but it was ta- ken and carried from me, to a Town three miles off, to be nurfed by a woman, whom my Mother had for that purpofe provided ; and this was done to conceal the fliame that I fhould or might fuftain, if it were known that I had a Child, with- out knowing who, or at leaft, where was the Father. So foon as a Month was expired, I went to fee the Child, the fight of which put me too much in mind of the Father; and I was then again fenfibly affli6led, at his abfence; me- thoughts in that infancy there was fo much re- femblance of my beloved deceiver, that I kifs’d the Infant not only for its own, but for the Fa- thers fake. I then returned home agen, and now after fo long a time of retirement, I began to re- cover, not only my ftrength, but fome additions to my beauty ; fo that I having had 2 or 3 Sui- tors, when a Maid, who had forborn vifiting me