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"How has it gone?" asked I. "Well," says he, with his nose in the boot; "we had a pretty rising ground, and the Cornishmen march'd up and whipp'd us out that's all and took a mort o' prisoners." He found the prickle, drew on his boot again, and asked "T'other side?" I nodded. "That's the laughing side, this day. Good evening." And with that he went off as fast as he came.
And when I had done, to my amaze he spoke out sharply, and as if to a whipp'd schoolboy. "'Tis a cock-and-bull story, sir, of which I could hope to make you ashamed. Six weeks in your company? and in boy's habit?
And he was whipp'd, may it please your honour, almost to death's door. They had better have shot him outright, as he begg'd, and he had gone directly to heaven, for he was as innocent as your honour. I thank thee, Trim, quoth my uncle Toby. I never think of his, continued Trim, and my poor brother Tom's misfortunes, for we were all three school-fellows, but I cry like a coward.
I whipp'd a pistol out of my sash and put the cold ring to his ear: and he scrambled up; and was a very lion all the rest of the day. But now we had again to change our course, for to my dismay I saw a line of sharpshooters moving down among the gorsebushes, to take the Cornishmen in flank.
My keys were sent to Bramah's with my desk, so I have not had the means of putting matters down regularly for several days; but who cares for the whipp'd cream of London society? Our poor little Johnnie is extremely ill. My fears have been uniform for this engaging child. We are in God's hands.
I bow'd very low, and as I left the room I vow'd I never wou'd, and that my proud heart should never be humbled by the outside of a fine woman. About an hour after, I whipp'd into my chaise for London, and have never seen her since." There was in the place a gay fellow half fuddled, who offered to jump in, and swore, though he liked not the liquor, he would have the toast.
The origin of the brutality towards madmen warred against by Charles Reade, and described in "Romeo and Juliet" "Not mad, but bound more than a madman is, Shut up in prison, kept without my food, Whipp'd and tormented" is seen in our extracts, which recall, too, in their insistence on bleeding the "head vein," Juvenal's remark on his friend about to marry: "O medici, mediam pertundite venam."
Consideration, like an angel, came And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him." And as to Pragmatic, I would not call you a stupid person even though you confided to me that you had never heard this footpad's name till to- night. John Bunyan has been borrowing Latin again, and not to the improvement of his style, or to the advantage of his readers.
As for the proposal of twelve volumes a year, or a volume a month, it no way alters my prospect write as I will, and rush as I may into the middle of things, as Horace advises I shall never overtake myself whipp'd and driven to the last pinch; at the worst I shall have one day the start of my pen and one day is enough for two volumes and two volumes will be enough for one year.
Nine Men's Morris was another popular game, and Falstaff, referring to his treatment when he escaped from Ford's house disguised as the fat woman of Brentford, says, "Since I plucked geese, played truant, and whipp'd top, I knew not what it was to be beaten, since lately." Goose-plucking was a particularly barbarous pastime.
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