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( 21 ) call me rogue for ſomething.-Then Hynd made him untye his greasy napsack, where he found fifty pieces of gold, and his own piece beside.-Now, the Committee-man, to chear up himself, resolves to borrow as much off the State before he went another journey.-Hynd faid, the ſooner you get it, the better for me, if I meet with you again.

13. HYND being well equipp'd, and mounted on his horſe, went one evening into Hyde-park to ſee ſome ſport; and riding up and down the Park, he eſpy'd a bag of money beside a gentleman in a coach, with whom Hynd uſed ſome diſcourse about the race that was to be run: But the race beginning, the gentleman caused his coach to ſtand ſtill, that he might judge what horse ran best. Hynd's mind not being idle, rode to the coach, took the bag in his hand, and ſet off.-The gentleman presently missing his money, cried out, Stop him, ſtop him, I am robb'd.-Many rode after him, especially the Captain whom he robb’d at Chalk-hill, who pursued hard. Hynd riding by St. James's, ſaid to the Soldiers, I have won the wager!-But by holding his bag fase, his cloak fell off; which he left for them that came next, he riding the by-way, ſo he left them; but, when he came to his companions, he ſaid, he never earn'd a hundred pounds ſo dear in his life.