heart-strings were ready to break, and being not able to take a nap for grief, turned changeling. The young man I had it of, told me, that from the fifteenth successively, it was descended to him: but they were unworthy to him, that having had his best days, would turn him off in his extream old age. I have him so fresh in my memory, that I cannot but condole his loss. _Cloak, if I may so call thee, though thou art Thus ravish’d from me, don’t abruptly part. Thou didst not take distaste, and so art gon, Cause once I call’d thee a meer hanger on. ’Twas but in jest; for had I now my will, I’de have thee for to hang about me still. Now I may tax thee justly, for I see That now th’art nothing else but levitie; Nay when I had thee, scarcely did I know Sometimes whether I had thee on or no. Thou wert so thin, and light, that some have thought Thee made of that same web _Arachne_ wrought, And say th’art useless now, unless men put Thee like a Cobweb to a finger cut. I love thee still, for better and for worse; He that divorc’d us, let him have my curse. Sure ’twas a red-Nos’d fellow, for I know, He coming near, it was but touch and go. But let him keep thee, for thou’lt useless be To him; thick cloaths suit best with knavery._ Day appearing, I got me a stick out of a hedge, and so walked in _Querpo_ into the City. I walked up and down, but met with none of my acquaintance on whom I might fasten on as a _bur_. Noon approaching, my belly began to Chime, I thought all the meat in _East-cheap_ would not lay that spirit hunger had raised within me. Coming by a bakers shop, I pretended to be ignorant of the City, & as I was asking him the way to such a place, not caring what, I happily secured a penny loaf, which I carried off undiscovered; I thought it not good to cumber my pocket with it, wherefore at two bits I gave it my belly to carry. Surely at that time I had an _Ostriches_ stomack; every thing I put into my mouth, passed through me like Quick-silver. Going a little farther, I came to an Ordinary, where I saw two sitting in a lower Room expecting their meat: I sate me down in the next little box to them. Immediately there was brought to them powdred Beef and Turnips; the young Man that served them, came to me, demanding what I would have, I bid him let me alone, and not speak too loud, for those two which were next me, were my very good friends, and I would startle them by and by with my unexpected appearance; at which he left me. Finding my opportunity, I slipt my hands through a hole, in the form of an heart, which was in the partition that divided us, and laying hold on the Turnips, I spake aloud, You hoggs, are ye at the Roots? I will make one among you instantly, and so brought out my handful; having devoured them in a