NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 93 



since compelled by the extremity of rain, and 

 encreasing waters. To which place when we ar- 

 rived, like men in amaze, we stood gazing at one 

 another, because to see the sheep grazing on the 

 tops of those houses, where there was hardly 

 grass enough to graze a goose in. By this you 

 may conclude their buildings but low, and I'm 

 sure their doors and entrances were so strait, that 

 they exercised our strength beyond our art. Ar- 

 chimedes' engines signified but little, till the soul- 

 diers set their shoulders to support the eves, by 

 which means the horse got an entrance in ; and 

 that horseman that was not throughly wet, was 

 doom'd that night to go supperless to bed. 



Thus in a storm we stormed the town, and 

 'twould make a man storm to be treated only 

 with oatmeal, of which we made cakes ; for 

 every souldier became a baker ; and the flesh- 

 meat they procured us was drest without slaugh- 

 ter ; for none we had except my duck, (you for- 

 merly discoursed) so that most of us roosted with 

 an empty appetite ; and every man that went 

 that night to bed, was sufficiently alarum'd be- 

 fore it was day. Oat-straw was our sheets, and 

 port-mantles our pillows. It's true, some had 

 cloaks, and 'twas well they had them, otherwise 

 they had been constrained to use plads ; and he 

 that used one but to cover his carcass, mustred 

 (I uphold him) more gray coats than black coats, 



