12 The Fortunes and Misfortunes
in Newgate, I clothed myſelf in man’s
apparel, tho’ my ſmooth face, (other-
wiſe perſonable and tall enough), might
have ſoon betrayed me.
I kept company with another thief,
who being purſu'd as he was ſtealing
off ſome goods, was unfortunately
taken; but I, with much difficulty,
made my eſcape. And indeed, had my
brother thief known of my being a wo-
man, I ſhould have been betray’d; but
throwing off my man’s apparel, had
ſometime after, the ſatisfaction to ſee
him hang’d.
My name was as well known at the
Old Bailey, as a remarkable traitor is
at the Secretary’s office.
Being now an excellent pick-pocket
as well as a whore, I took from a cull,
after I had made him, drunk, his gold
watch, purſe of gold, fine perriwig,
ſword, and ſnuff-box, and leaping out
of the coach, (which ſtopped to let an-
other paſs by it), and left my ſnoring
fool to lament his diſaſter.
This ſucceſs made me follow whor-
ing again, but finding the profit of it
too little to ſuport me, I ſtuck prin-
cipally to my trade of ſhop-lifting.
