Page:Merry life and mad exploits of Captain James Hynd.pdf/10

 10 The Life and Merry Exploits

the gentleman, what money ſhall I give you, exchange horſes with me? Forty pounds, ſir, ſaid Hynd: I will give you thirty pounds in gold, ſaid the gentleman. Hynd ſaid, ſir, ride him: ſo the gentleman gave him thirty pounds in gold, and his horſe; but as he rode along, there was a ditch ſir, ſaid Hynd, leap over this ditch: I cannot, ſaid the gentleman. Hynd deſired the gentleman to alight. So he got on his own horſe, and leap over the ditch; and when he was on the other ſide, he ſaid, Sir you would give twenty pounds to ſee Hynd, and now you have ſeen him; the other ten pounds was for ridding my horſe, and ſo I think you have ſeen enough of him, and ſo farewel.

CHAP. VIII.

How Hynd robbed a Parſon of forty pounds.

A Parſon riding from Coventry to London, was robbed of his ſilver by thieves, but having forty pounds of gold about him, reſolved to go on his journey: And as he rode, Hynd overtook him, and aſked the parſon which way be travelled? The parſon told him that he intended for London: but lays he, I was almoſt prevented, for to-day I was robbed of five pounds of ſilver, and the knaves left me but five ſhillings in all to bear my charges. Sir, ſaid Hynd, I was robbed of a little ſilver to-day; a man has as good let them have it quickly, as endangerouſly to reſiſt; but I was cunning enough to hide my gold in my boots before-hand. Nay, I believe, ſaid the parſon, mine is as ſave, for I have quilted it in the collar of my doublet. Hynd was not a little glad when he did hear where his gold lay, but being near their