During his absence, I had little else to do but to curse the country, and scratch my ears for want of liberty, which were terrified with the buzzing of a parcel of fanatical souls, who swarm’d as thick as bees at a _Hampshire_-farmers, some damning of doctor _B----ges_, others confounding of _Timothy Cr--soe_, some raving against _Me--d_ of _Stepney_, others cursing of _Salters-Hall_, &c. as if the ready road to hell was to travel through _Presbytery_. By this time my friend _Bob_ was as good as his word, which was the first time I ever knew him so. Well, says he, you may see I am as sure as a _Robin_, I have got your discharge; but the justice swears, had you been confin’d for any thing besides whoring, drinking, and swearing, you should have been shackled and been damn’d before he’d ever have releas’d you; but however here’s a little _Scribere cum dasho_ will set you at liberty; upon which we call’d the constable of the ward, who, upon sight of the discharge, freed my supporters from confinement, which was no sooner done, but with a reciprocal joy for my happy deliverance, we began a ramble together thro’ all the neighbouring avenues, in hopes to meet with something that might give us a little diversion; we had not travelled above an hundred yards, but who should we meet but the old snarling rogue that us’d to cry _poor Jack_, with his wife after him; he no sooner espy’d us, but attack’d us open-mouth’d after the following manner, _Two sharpers without one penny of money in their pockets; a couple of bullies, and both cowards, ha, ha. Now for a fool with a full pocket, a good dinner on free-cost, a whore and a tavern, a belly-full of wine without paying for’t, ha, ha, ha, a hackney-coach for a bilk, or a brass-shilling, a long sword, never a shirt_, White-Fryars _i’th’ day time, a garret at night, ha, ha, ha, ha_. Thus the old rascal run upon us as we pass’d by him, that we were both as glad when we were out of his reach, as a hen-peck’d cuckold that has shunn’d the hisses of that serpent he hugs every night in his bosom.