A forward girl being in company of two or three with her mother, must needs whip her hand up her petticoats and scratch her —-. “Lord, child,” says the mother in a pet, “what are you about?” “Only laying the itching of that which you have often plagued my poor father to do for you.”

2015 translation: A girl reaches under her skirt in public to scratch her vagina. When the mum freaks out her she responds, “I’m just scratching my vagina like you’re always asking dad to do for you.”