And now, applying my eye close,
I commanded the room perfectly, and could see my two young
sparks romping and pulling one another about, entirely, to my
imagination, in frolic and innocent play.
The eldest might be, on my nearest guess, towards nine-
teen, a tall comely young man, in a white fustian frock, with
a green velvet cape, and a cut bob-wig.
The youngest could not be above seventeen, fair, ruddy,
compleatly well made, and to say the truth, a sweet pretty
stripling: he was--I fancy, too, a country-lad, by his dress,
which was a green plush frock and breeches of the same, white
waistcoat and stockings, a jockey cap, with his yellowish
hair, long and loose, in natural curls.
But after a look of circumspection, which I saw the
eldest cast every way round the room, probably in too much
hurry and heat not to overlook the very small opening I was
posted at, especially at the height it was, whilst my eye
close to it kept the light from shining through and betraying
it, he said something to his companion and presently chang'd
the face of things.
For now the elder began to embrace, to press and kiss the
younger, to put his hands into his bosom, and give him such
manifest signs of an amorous intention, as made me conclude
the other to be a girl in disguise: a mistake that nature kept
me in countenance for, for she had certainly made one, when
she gave him the male stamp.
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