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Good lack! when I was ta'en prisoner by the Turks a-sailing i' the Mary of London, and sold for a slave at Algiers, I escap'd, after two months, with Eli Sprat, a Gravesend man, in a small open boat. Well, we sail'd three days and nights, and all the time there was a small sea bird following, flying round and round us, and calling two notes that sounded for all the world like 'Wind'ard!
The potboy was insensible, and my eyes fell on Master Davenant, who slowly shook his head. "I'll say not a word," said he, stolidly: "lost twenty pound, one time, by a lawsuit." "Pack of fools!" I cried, driven beyond endurance. "The guilty ones have escap'd these ten minutes. Now stop me who dares!"
In our dayes we never saw that they ever profited any Prince, unless it were the Countess of Furli, when Count Hieronymo of Furli her husband was slain; for by means thereof she escap'd the peoples rage, and attended aid from Milan, and so recover'd her State: and then such were the times that the stranger could not assist the people: but afterwards they serv'd her to little purpose, when Cæsar Borgia assaild her, and that the people which was her enemy, sided with the stranger.
"I shd most certainy have had ye honr to wait on you persony, but the rain has given me a mo seve cold; hope you have escap'd, tho' by ye by, you had no cloke, nor wrappr! "My kindest regards to your mo excellent unce. I am quite sure he's the same fine merry fellw he always was, tell him so! "Dr Sr, Yours faithy, "Peter Grindlescrew Hales.
But what " She drew back from our strange equipage. "All in good time. First tell me how came the fire?" "Why, foul work, as it seems. All I know is I was sleeping, and awoke to hear the black seaman hammering on my door. Jumping up, I found the room full of smoke, and escap'd. The rooms beneath, they say, were stuff'd with straw, and the yard outside heap'd also with straw, and blazing.
Why has not the sea o'erwhelm'd me that respects not even the innocent themselves? Have I been a murderer? when I had violated Lycas's wife, have I fled justice? have I escap'd even when I was condemn'd to dye, to live in a strange place, to have my name recorded only among beggars and vagabonds? and who condemn'd me to this solitude? A boy!
But this will keep cold till another time. In the mean while I take up Chaucer where I left him. Not a single character has escap'd him. All his pilgrims are severally distinguish'd from each other; and not only in their inclinations, but in their very physiognomies and persons. Bapista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them.
Three of these fowre at Pope Alexanders death he had effected, and the fourth he had neare brought to a point. For of those Lords he had stript, he put to death as many as he could come at, and very few escap'd him: he gaind him the Roman Gentlemen: and in the Colledge he had made a great faction. And touching his new Conquest, he had a designe to become Lord of Tuscany.
"I shd most certainy have had ye honr to wait on you persony, but the rain has given me a mo seve cold; hope you have escap'd, tho' by ye by, you had no cloke, nor wrappr! "My kindest regards to your mo excellent unce. I am quite sure he's the same fine merry fellw he always was, tell him so! "Dr Sr, Yours faithy, "Peter Grindlescrew Hales.
Bell. How! I hope not so; I left Charmante confin'd to my Closet, when my Uncle had like to have surpriz'd us together: Is he not here? Ela. No, he's escap'd, but he has made sweet doings. Bell. Heavens, Cousin! What? Ela.
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