Most frequently the next day I wrote all down with much prolixity; since I have much abbreviated it. Where, however, owing to the incidents, it is needful, the places of amusement are given correctly. Eporner xxx What will be said or thought of me, what became of the manu*********** if found when I am dead? The Christian name of the servants mentioned are generally the true ones, the other names mostly false, tho phonetically resembling the true ones. When I began it, had scarcely read a bawdy book, none of which, excepting Fanny Hill, appeared to me to be truthful: that did, and it does so still; the others telling of recherche eroticisms or of inordinate copulative powers, of the strange twists, tricks, and fancies of matured voluptuousness and philosophical lewdness, seemed
