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good health to the honest gentleman you know of, and you 

 are welcome into the Peak. 



~V~IAT. I thank you, sir, and present you my service again, 

 and to all the honest brothers of the angle. 



Pise. I'll pledge you, sir : so, there's for your ale, and 

 farewell. Come, sir, let us be going, for the sun grows low, 

 and I would have yon look about you as you ride ; for you 

 will see an odd country, and sights that will seem strange 

 to you. 



CHAPTER II. 



Pise. So, sir, now we have got to the top of the hill out 

 of town, look about you, and tell me how you like the 

 country. 



YIAT. Bless me, what mountains are here ! Are we not 

 in Wales ? 



Pise. No, but in almost as mountainous a country ; and yet 

 these hills, though high, bleak, and craggy, breed and feed 

 good beef and mutton, above ground, and afford good store of 

 lead within. 



VIAT. They had need of all those commodities to make 

 amends for the ill landskip ; but I hope our way does not lie 

 over any of these, for I dread a precipice. 



Pise. Believe me, but it does, and down one, especially, 

 that will appear a little terrible to a stranger : though the way 

 is passable enough, and so passable, that we who are natives of 

 these mountains, and acquainted with them, disdain to alight. 



"ViAT. I hope, though, that a foreigner is privileged to use 

 his own discretion, and that I may have the liberty to entrust 

 my neck to the fidelity of my own feet, rather than to those 

 of my horse, for I have no more at home. 



Pise. 'Twere hard else. But in the meantime, I think 

 'twere best, while this way is pretty even, to mend our pace, 

 that we may be past that hill I speak of; to the end your 

 apprehension may not be doubled, for want of light to discern 

 the easiness of the descent. 



YIAT. I am willing to put forward as fast as my beast will 



