256 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



Pise. You see it here at the worst : we shall come to it 

 anon again, after two miles riding, and so near as to lie upon 

 the very banks. 



YIAT. Would we were there once : but I hope we have 

 no more of these Alps to pass over. 



Pise. No, no, sir ; only this ascent before you, which you 

 see is not very uneasy, and then you will no more quarrel with 

 your way. 



YIAT. Well, if ever I come to London, of which many a 

 man there, if he were in my place, would make a question, I 

 will sit down and write my travels ; and, like Tom Coriate,"" 

 print them at my own charge. Pray what do you call this 

 hill we came down ? 



Pise. We call it Hanson Toot. 



YIAT. Why, farewell, Hanson Toot ! I'll no more on thee : 

 I'll go twenty miles about first : Puh ! I sweat that my shirt 

 sticks to my back. 



PJSC. Come, sir, now we are up the hill ; and now how do 

 you ? 



YIAT. Why, very well, I humbly thank you, sir ; and warm 

 enough, I assure you. What have we here, a church ? As 

 I'm an honest man, a very pretty church ? Have you 

 churches in this country, sir ] 



* Tom Coriate lived in the reign of King James the First; and, as "Wood 

 calls him, was the whetstone of all the wits of that age : and, indeed, the allu- 

 sions to him, and to the singular oddness of his character, are numberless. He 

 travelled almost over Europe on foot ; and in that tour walked 900 miles with 

 one pair of shoe*, which he got mended at Zurich. Afterwards he visited 

 Turkey, Persia, and the Great Mogul's dominions, travelling in so frugal a 

 manner, that as he tells his mother, in a letter to her in his ten months' 

 travels, between Aleppo and the Mogul's court, he spent but three pounds 

 sterling ; living remarkably well for about twopence sterling a day ; and of 

 that three pounds he elsewhere says, he was cozened of no less than ten 

 shillings sterling by certain Christians of the Armenian nation ; so that, 

 indeed, he spent but fifty shillings in his ten months' travels. In these, his 

 travels, he attained to great perfection both in the Persian and Hindostan lan- 

 guages ; in the former, lie made and pronounced an oration to the Great 

 Mogul ; and his skill in the latter he took occasion to manifest in the following 

 very signal instance. In the service of the English ambassador, then resident, 

 was a woman of Hindostan, a laundress, whose frequent practice it was to scold, 

 brawl, and rail, from sunrising to sunset. This formidable shrew did Coriate 

 one day undertake to scold with, in her own language ; and succeeded so well 

 in the attempt, that, by eight of the clock in the morning, he had totally 

 silenced her, leaving her not a word to speak. Further it appears, that he was 

 a zealous champion for the Christian religion against the Mahometans and the 

 Pagans, in the defence whereof he sometimes risked his life. He died of the 

 flux, occasioned by drinking sack, at Surat, in 1C17: having published his 

 European travels in a quarto volume, which he called his " Crudities ;" and to 

 this circumstance the passage in the text is a manifest allusion. H. 



