If you are robbed, there is no help but to indeavour to surprize the Thieves by a strict pursuit: Therefore let no _Remora_ or delay deter you from obtaining your wish, and so seize them that so lately seized you. In the first place, scowre the next Road, not streight before, but either on the right or left hand; for they know _Hue_ and _Cries_ never cross the passages, but go straight along. If in so doing you miss them, then conclude they are sheltred in some Inn which you have past, and therefore you must set some careful Spies, with a sufficient assistance near at hand, and be confident you will see them come that way, without the least apprehension of fear, or fear of apprehension. But this observe, that if they light of any considerable sum, then do they ride that night to their general Rendezvous in _London_, which is too sure a shelter for them: but observably take notice, for here is as eminent an example of their subtilty, as any ever the Devil enrich’d their knowledge with; For, if you are robbed in the eastern quarter, pursue them not in the direct Road to _London_ with _Hue_ and _Cry_, for by some other way they are fled; but haste to the City, and in _Westminster_, _Holborn_, the _Strand_ and _Covent-garden_ search speedily, for there they are. If Northward they light on you, then to _Southwark_, the _Bankside_, or _Lambeth_ they are gone; and when you find any one, seize all with him, for they are all Companions that are together. CHAP. LXIV. _Cordial advice, and infallible instructions for the _Innkeeper_, how to know Thieves from his honest Guests._