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CHAP. II.

How Sheffery travelled towards London, and how he fell in with two Welsh drovers, &c.

SHEFFERY travelled the road, hav- ing but little money in his purse, fell into serious cogitations, sometimes calling to mind the pleasant pastimes he met with when he was at the uni- versity, and then thinking on the pre- sent misery those vain pleasures had brought him to; and while he re- mained in this disconsolate humour, two of his countrymen overtook him with a trove of cattle, to whom he said, whither are you going? who answered, we are drovers going to Smithfield, but we want one to help us. Then Sheffery asked they what they were to                      have for their pains? who said a shil- ling. He concluded that he was going to the same cîty, thought something better than nothing, so he joined with them; at last they came to Smithfield, where the owner gave them a whole shilling, then was their care to part this one piece equally amongst three;