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  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.