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We'll go on there and have some bread and cheese and cider, then we shall be able to walk back more quickly." It did not take us long to reach the pretty little road-side ale-house, where the first thing I saw was the doctor's pony tied up to the gate by the rough stable or shed. "Some one ill?" I said. "Shall we tell Doctor Chowne what we were going to do?"
They repair, after the day's fishing, to some honest ale-house, with lavender in the window and a score of ballads stuck about the wall, where they sing catches "old-fashioned poetry but choicely good" composed by the author or his friends, drink barley wine, and eat their trout or chub.
From the first day James did this, Ben made him do just what he liked. James went out shooting at night with Ben that is, poaching; he was often at the ale-house with him, and in bad company, and many other evil things they did together. Poor Mary did not know this, but thought rather that James would do good to Ben, and lead him right.
In France, on the other hand, in the poorest inns, in the most ordinary hedge ale-house, you will have a dessert of every fruit in season, and always tastily and even elegantly served. The wine, likewise, is infinitely better than what is met with on the roads in England.
Had I been like many others, had I possessed the talent of borrowing and running in debt at every ale-house I came to, I might have fared better; but in that my incapacity equalled my repugnance, and to demonstrate the prevalence of both, it will be sufficient to say, that though I have passed almost my whole life in indifferent circumstances, and frequently have been near wanting bread, I was never once asked for money by a creditor without having it in my power to pay it instantly; I could never bear to contract clamorous debts, and have ever preferred suffering to owing.
It had not before occurred to me that a pedlar was a great man in a labourer's ale-house; but now that I had to enact the part for an evening, I found that so it was. He has in his hedge quarters somewhat the same pre-eminency as the man who takes a private parlour in an hotel.
There is an ale-house in Sea-coal Lane the same where lady-like George Peele was found by the barber, who had subscribed an hour before for his decent burial, "all alone with a peck of oysters" and here Ned is detained an unconscionable time. Just as he is leaving with Kempe and Cowley, Armin and Will Shakespeare burst in with a cry for wine.
A man has but one tongue to answer with, and mine is well-nigh glued to the roof of my mouth." "Will drink unloosen it?" said the Colonel; "though I dare say thou hast tried that spell at every ale-house on the road. Call for what thou wouldst have, man, only be quick." "Colonel Everard," answered Wildrake, "I have not tasted so much as a cup of cold water this day."
He was the same rough, coarse being as before, a constant visitor at the ale-house, a fearful swearer, and ready at all times for any mischief. There were too many like him. Samuel and the others having got their picks newly sharpened, and their spades, went to the lamp-house for their lamps.
Imagine the door of every hospitable ale-house throughout the kingdom, thrown open for the reception of the ragged and pennyless burgess. Imagine the whole country filled with the shouts of drunkenness, and the air rent with mingled huzzas. Represent the broken heads, and the bleeding noses, the tattered raiment, and staggering bodies of a million of loyal voters.
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