Daniel Defoe

“ And as for acquaintance, prithee, Amy, what sober lady or what family of any character will visit or be acquainted with a whore?”
“Why, all that’s true, madam,” says Amy, “but how can it be remedied now?” “’Tis true, Amy,” said I, “the thing cannot be remedied now, but the scandal of it, I fancy, may be thrown off.”
“Truly,” says Amy, “I do not see how, unless you will go abroad again and live in some other nation where nobody has known us or seen us, so that they cannot say they ever saw us before.” ”

“ Amy was struck with the novelty, though I had not mentioned my design to her, and when the Quaker was gone out of the room, says Amy, ”I guess your meaning; it is a perfect disguise to you; why, you look quite another body, I should not have known you myself. Nay,” says Amy, “more than that, it makes you look ten years younger than you did.”
Nothing could please me better than that, and when Amy repeated it I was so fond of it that I asked my Quaker (I won’t call her landlady, ’tis indeed too coarse a word for her, and she deserved a much better) —I say I asked her if she would sell it. ”

“ I pretended, after I had been there some time, to be extremely in love with the dress of the Quakers, and this pleased her so much that she would needs dress me up one day in a suit of her own clothes, but my real design was to see whether it would pass upon me for a disguise. ”