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( 23 ) ſkill to recover your wife from her disorder: So Hynd leads him from oneſtreet to another, till at last he got within his lodging, which was ſo contrived, that it ſtood at ſome diſtance from any other house. Having locked the door upon themselves, he takes in the one hand a pistol, and in the other a great empty purse, and, looking furiously upon the mountebank, he ſaid, Sir, here is wife, (meaning his empty purse), ſhe hath been a long time troubled with a flax in her belly, and you are the only man that can remedy it: You must therefore find out a remedy to cure this disease, or else I myself, by the help of this pistol, am resolved to remedy it-The mountebank ſeeing himself thus cunningly and ſuddenly ſurprised, began to cry out, but was presently ſilenced by the fight of the pistol, and was fain, for fear, to let go his purse to cure Hynd's, which had the flux.-But; according to his wonted charity, ſeeing the man in this trembling condition, restored him ſome of the money again, promising to convoy him home to his lodging, and rode with his pistol cock’d, for fear of any out-cry; and in the midway left him to find out his lodging himself.

15. HYND being very weary of ſtaying long in a place flipped himself-or Scotland, where he landed, and presented his ſervice