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16 munificence, had charged the gentleman that was ill, the same of his ordinary, (although he never tasted of it) as he did all the rest, viz. a shilling for eating: what, says the gentleman, do you charge me a shilling for eating; I suppose you mean for not eating; you know very well I never sat down to your ordinary nor came near the table. I cannot help that, sir, replies the landlord, you said you came to dine with me, and had a knife and fork laid ready for you, and there was victuals enough, so that if you did not chuse to eat, that was no fault of mine; you were in the same company, and I should have been as well pleased if you had eaten a hearty dinner as none at all; it makes no to me; and I must not break through an established custom.—Very well (replies the gentleman) if it be an established custom, I do not desire you  much as to crack upon my ——So they paid their reckoning,  away they went, but not very  pleased, as we may suppose, with the , but when  were upon the road home again, say