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I return from Italy, and then I shall obey your command, in paying all dutiful respects and worship to her, according to what she is. So the Ambaſsador stood bound for him, that he should perform this piece of worship at his return, according to the King's pleasure.

17. During their stay in Italy, they chanced to be in a Nobleman's house where they kept but few servants, because of a spirit that did haunt the houſe for the space of two hundred years before that time, so servant could work any kind of labour in or about the houſe for it except cooks, for what they vulgarly called a Brownie, did all itself, and would allow no fellow-labourer to work along with it.-- In the morning George got up pretty early and called for water to wash himſelf; then directly comes the Brownie, with a baſon of water in the one hand, and a clean cloth in the other, George perceiving him, by his pale ghostly countenance, not to be an earthly creature, said, Of what nation art thou? To which it answered, in Gaelic or Erſe. A countryman of yours Sir. The Ambaſsador smiled, and joked George, telling him it was a devil, and how could it be a countryman of his? O, says George I'll show you the contrary of that, the devil dare not stay in our country,