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I lock'd the door after me, and slip'd the key into my pocket as I sprang up the stairs beyond. But here a light was shining, so once more I extinguish'd my lantern. The steps ended in a long passage, with a handsome lamp hanging at the uttermost end, and beneath this lamp I stepp'd into a place that fill'd me with astonishment. 'Twas, I could not doubt, the entrance hall of the governor's house.
Fly be gone depart, vanish for ever from her to some more safe and innocent Apartment. Sir Feeb. Oh, that's very hard! Let. Blest be this kind Release, and yet methinks it grieves me to consider how the poor old Man is frighted. Bel. He's gone, and lock'd himself into his Chamber And now, my dear Leticia, let us fly
Later on Sir Politick gives instructions for travellers: "Some few particulars I have set down, Only for this meridian, fit to be known Of your crude traveller.... First, for your garb, it must be grave and serious, Very reserv'd and lock'd; not tell a secret On any terms; not to your father: scarce A fable, but with caution: make sure choice Both of your company, and discourse; beware You never speak a truth PEREGRINE. How!
It is a common Practice with me to ask her some Question concerning the Constitution, which she answers me in general out of Harington's Oceana : Then I commend her strange Memory, and her Arm is immediately lock'd in mine.
Ha, ha, ha, how I am griev'd to think on it; ha, ha, ha, that you shou'd both be so hardly put to it; ha, ha, ha, for the old Gentleman has lock'd all the doors, and took the keys to bed to him, go, get you in, ha, ha, ha. Ant. Oh, my dear Clara, this is a blessing I could not hope. Cla. So large a Freedom shall my Virtue prove, I'll trust my Honour with Antonio's Love. Jacinta laughing.
I heard a low sob behind me. The jailer's daughter was going. "Lend me your bodkin, my dear, for a memento." She pull'd it out and gave it to me. "Thank you, and now good-bye! Stop: here's a kiss to take to my dear mistress. They shan't hang me, my dear." The girl went out, sobbing, and lock'd the door after her. I sat down for a while, feeling doleful.
But this is not all; for we can go out with our Commodities, to any other Part of the West-Indies, or elsewhere, in the Depth of Winter; whereas, those in New-England, New-York, Pensylvania, and the Colonies to the Northward of us, cannot stir for Ice, but are fast lock'd into their Harbours.
Thither he came, ard at his first entry, treated us as Lycas had done: After which wringing his hands together, he upbraided us with the lye we had made of Lycas, and taking Ascyltos from us, lock'd us up in the room where we were, without so much as hearing him speak in our defence; but carrying him to his house, set a guard upon us, till himself should return.
Oxenton, the Gaoler, who keeps an Inn opposite to the Prison, went into the Gaol about four a Clock in the Morning, as was his Custom, attended by three Men, to see if all was safe, and, having lock'd the outward Door, sent one of his Men down to the Dungeon, where the four Felons had found means to disengage themselves from the Pillar and Chain to which they had been lock'd down, and one of them, viz.
After well considering both what I had seen myself and the report of the Master's, I found by experience that by keeping in with the Mainland we should be in continued danger, besides the risk we should run in being lock'd in with Shoals and reefs by not finding a passage out to Leeward.
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