"But then reflecting that I might possibly o'er-hear some part of their Discourse, and by that judge of Leonora's Thoughts, I rein'd my Passion in; and by the help of an advancing Buttress, which kept me from their sight, I learnt the black Conspiracy."
The False Friend, a comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-lane, by His Majesty's Servants