_Were ever men so scar’d, did ever fright So seize weak Mortals in the dead of night? Could a bare noise affright when nought appear’d? And being afraid we knew not what we fear’d: One hid his head all underneath the cloaths, Lest that the Fiend should take him by the Nose: Dumb was he too, for not a word did pass, Lest that should tell him where about he was. My Friend, the Captain, whom I will not wrong, Did ne’re before to me smell half so strong: My panting heart (I almost stew’d to death) Did beat so fast I could not draw my breath. Now comes the worst, the noise approach’d more near, All things combin’d for to increase our fear. Mounting the stairs Old_ Nick _was drunk I think, To break his Bottle, and to spill his drink: The ratling Flask tumbling the stairs amain, Did make us think the Devil shook his Chain. But now th’ appearance of the Morning-light, Gave us new life, and put our fears to flight: For now we found, for all the peoples talk, The Sp’rit was quiet, but the Thieves did walk. This house these haunted which were worser Evils, Than Fiends or Goblins, Damn’d-incarnate-Devils. This Apparition plainly did discover, That this same night the Maid lay with her Lover. For the Stockings and the Doublet did disclose, The match they made had thus mismatch’d their Cloths._ CHAP. II. _They are ship’d from_ Palermo _to_ Naples, _by the way Mistress_ Dorothy _continues the story of her Hostess who was hanged with her Husband for a Murder, the like was never heard of, her notorious confession at the Gallows of all her former Villanies_: Latroons _reflections on it. Mistress_ Dorothy _and her Companion the Souldier, return for_ London. Our _Mulletteer_ was very well rewarded by our Entertainer, for the prevention of so much mischief, which had undoubtedly befel the Gentleman, had not this fellow gone down at that unseasonable time to stuff his insatiate guts. And now taking our leaves (the Gentleman and his friends being very unwilling and sorrowful to part with our Companies) away we came shaping our course for _Palermo_, where being arriv’d and finding out those Friends we had left too long, infinite was our satisfaction of meeting thus together again, but I I thought my _Jinny_ would have been transported with joy when she saw me, but recovering her self, she check’d me severely for staying so long from her beyond my promise. Our caresses were accompanied with what choice Viands and Wine the City could produce.