Roxana being now fully furnished with materials for her revenge on Sabina, without exposing her beloved Miramour to the resentment of an injured husband, wrote to the latter the next morning, in words to this effect:

To Germanicus.

Sir

This brings you a very ungrateful piece of intelligence; – but, in my opinion, whoever sees a person wronged and conceals it, takes part in the offence, and tho' innocent of the commencement of the crime, is accessary to the continuance of it; – it would certainly be the utmost injustice that you should be the last person to know what concerns yourself alone, and I therefore think it my duty to inform you of what chance has discovered to me.

Your wife, Sir, is false to your bed, and lavishes on mr. Youngly all those favours which you have a right to engross; – the guilty pair meet twice or thrice every week, at a lodging she rents by the quarter for that purpose.

But to say your wife is guilty of so foul a crime is doing nothing, without putting it in your power to prove her so; – the thing is easy, sir, if you will follow my directions; – the lovers have appointed to meet to-morrow about seven at their usual rendezvous, – if you go at that time, or rather before it, to the third house on the left hand in lane, on your asking mrs. who is the keeper of this private brothel, and telling her you want the key of the yellow chamber, she will presently conduct you to a room adjoining to that which is the scene of your wife's loose pleasure; – there are holes already bored through the wain-scot, through which you may plainly discern all that passes. – It is at your own option, whether you will have any other witnesses of your wife's transgression than your own eyes, and also how to behave towards her after detection. – I have discharged the dictates of my conscience in giving you this information, and am,

Sir,

Your unknown friend.

P.S. Be careful to drop no words that may give the woman of the house the least cause to suspect either who you are, or the motive of your coming.