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But, Sir, now you have thus far complied with my designs, 

 as to take a troublesome journey into an ill country, 

 only to satisfy me ; how long may I hope to enjoy you ? 



VIAT. Why truly, Sir, as long as I conveniently can ; 

 and longer, I think, you would not have me. 



Pise. Not to your inconvenience by any means, Sir : 

 but I see you are weary, and therefore I will presently 

 wait on you to your chamber, where, take counsel of 

 your pillow ; and, to-morrow resolve me. Here, take 

 the lights ; and pray follow them, Sir : Here you are 

 like to lie ; and now I have showed you your lodging, I 

 beseech you, command any thing you want, and so I 

 wish you good rest. 



VIAT. Good night, Sir.* 



the very substance of it, for it is a stinking loathsome thing ; and 

 so is hell. And further, his majesty professed that, were he to invite 

 the devil to dinner, he should have three dishes ; 1. A pig ; 2. A 

 pole of ling and mustard ; and 3. A pipe of tobacco for digesture." 

 In Herefordshire, to signify the last or concluding pipe that any one 

 means to smoke at a sitting, they use the term a Kemble pipe, 

 alluding to a man of the name of Kemble, who in the cruel persecu- 

 tion under that merciless bigot Queen Mary, being condemned for 

 heresy, in his walk of some miles from the prison to the stake, amidst 

 a crowd of weeping friends, with the tranquillity and fortitude of 

 a primitive martyr, smoked a pipe of tobacco. H. 



* The gentlemanly hospitality of Piscator, by whom we are here 

 to understand Mr. Cotton himself, in his behaviour to a stranger, 

 manifested in the foregoing part of the dialogue, and in this instance 

 of courtesy, is well worth noting. H. 



