late; for my Master doubting some such business, never left till he served the Execution, so that when the poor Iron-monger came back with his _Writ of Error_, he found the Bayliffs and my Master in his shop, in possession of his goods; and he being out of Moneys at present, was forced to let my Master have all his Dragons-bloud again at twelve pence _per_ pound, and so in that and other Commodities paying his Debt and Charges, and giving each other general Releases (which my Master earnestly insisted on, and without which my Master would do nothing, the Iron-monger being in a strait) they made an end of this bargain: and now the Iron-monger, when he came to a second reckoning of his bargain, found, that instead of getting 8_l._ 3_s._ 4_d._ he had lost 33_l._ 3_s._ 4_d._ besides all his Cost; and my Master thus having gained by his Commodity, sold it since to another for one shilling six pence _per_ pound. And this, said the Drugster, is but one of my Masters ways to get money. This young fellow had taken a great deal of pains to discover every particular of his Masters late bargain: from what he had related, I concluded the Master to be a very cunning practitioner in the Mysterious Art of _Knavery_, and therefore I was desirous to be acquainted with him; and knowing that he was but a young man himself, and also desirous of acquaintance, I found no great difficulty to attain to my desires, which I soon after accomplished, as I shall relate to you in the next Chapter. ---------------------------------------------------------------- CHAP. XX. _The Relater and the Drugsters Master come acquainted, being concerned in Tryals at Law: their several Cases they relate to each other._