trice, I presented my self to their view, and sate down with them: _Gentlemen_, said I, _excuse my frollick, I am in a merry humour to day_. They concluded what I said to be a truth, and bad me welcome. _Nay_, said I, _meat will come instantly as a supply_; and so it had need, for we made a clear board immediately. Seeing this, they called the boy, taxing him for sloth, that he did not bring my meat. _Sir_, said he, _the Gentleman did not order me to bring any_; at which they frown’d, and began to charge me with incivility. _What are ye angry?_ said I. To which they replied Affirmatively: _If so_, I answered, (laying my hand upon a full pot of Ale) _I value your anger no more than the drinking this Pot_, which I swallowed at two gulps, and so bid them farewel; leaving them to call for another Ordinary. [Illustration] CHAP. XV. _How he had like to have been transported, being taken up by Kid-napper, vulgarly called a Spirit._ Having satisfied my stomach, I walked along with much more courage than before; which had been to little purpose, had I not had a stick in my hand; For there was hardly a dog in the street (which I went through) that gave me not his _grinning Salutation_, and would when my back was turned (knowing else I would never have suffered their humility) have kist my very _heels_, had not my stick prevented their _Snearing Dog-ships_ mouths. I have wondred often why Doggs will bark so incessantly at the sight of a Tinker, Pedlar, Tom-a-Bedlam, nay, any suspitious fellow, till I found it my self by experience, that by natural instinct they know and hate the scent of a Rogue. My course of life appeared so idle (by my lazy stalking and gaping this way and that, sometimes standing still and seriously viewing what deserved not a minutes observance) that the Beadle took hold on me, telling me it was great pitty that such a lusty young Man should want imployment, and therefore would help me to some: but understanding from him that it must be in _Bridewel_, my leggs failed me, shewing thereby how unwilling they were to be accessary to the punishment which would be inflicted on my back: at length by pitiful looks, and many intreaties, I got clear of him, but fell immediately foul with an evil spirit, or a Seducer of Persons to the Indies. Well may he be called a Spirit, since his nature is like the Devils, to seduce any he meets withal, whom he can perswade with allurements and deluding falsities to his purpose.