To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
A certain person latelie attempted the viola∣tion of the honor of a verie virtuous Gentlewoman by this stratagem; as they were alone together he pretended his back itcht, and therefore desired the Gentlewoman to scratch it, who suspecting no∣thing, consented, in the m••an time this beastlie fellow obscenelie shewed what nature would, and modestie must hide, saying, Madam look whe∣ther
I am not of the nature of a cat, who being scratcht on the back will play with her tail: the Gentlewoman all in confusion, furiouslie flung from him, and with much indignation related the affront to her husband, who bid her not disquiet her self, and he would verie speedilie find out a way to be revenged, and thus it was, he invited him one day to dinner, and to remove all suspicion he entertain'd him verie liberallie, haveing dined, he took him to the Balconie, where haveing discour∣sed him a while, at length he took him up by the twist and threw him over, which was a great hight from the ground, saying, If you have the nature of a cat, no doubt you will pitch upon your leggs.