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16 The comical Adventures of What could be done with ſuch a man? One of the gentlemen, being a practitioner of the law, anſwered the hoſteſs thus,-By G-d, madam, you are very much in the right of it; for although he has no right to the room he is in, yet, as this is a public inn, and he being in poſſeſſion of it, to break open a door upon him, would be ſuch an aſſault, as I ſhould not care to be concerned in for an hundred pounds. This ſpeech of the lawyer's ſoon determined the matter, for down they all went very quietly, and left Mr. Spiller ſecure enough in his lodgings.

In the morning when Mr. Spiller came down, he very complaiſantly bid them all a good morrow, and they in return, all curſed him heartily for his good humour, and called him a thouſand bad names; but he underſtanding never a word that they ſaid, it was all given to the wind. Here, he deſired half a pint of white wine made hot, with an egg beat up in it for his breakfaſt, and then giving the hoſtler a ſhilling for looking after his horſe,