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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 lodgings, I beseech you, command 

 anything you want, and so I wish you good rest. 



VIAT. Good night, sir.* 



CHAPTER III. 

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Pise. Good morrow, sir ; what ! up and drest so early ? 



VIAT. Yes, sir, I have been drest this half hour ; for I 

 rested so well, and have so great a mind either to take, or 

 to see a trout taken in your fine river, that I could no 

 longer lie abed. 



Pise. I am so glad to see you so brisk this morning, and 

 so eager for sport ; though I must tell you, this day proves 

 so calm, and the sun rises so bright, as promises no great 

 success to the angler ; but, however, we'll try, and, one way 

 or other, we shall sure do something. What will you have 

 to your breakfast, or what will you drink this morning ? 



VIAT. For breakfast, I never eat any, and for drink am 

 very indifferent ; but if you please to call for a glass of ale, 

 I'm for you ; and let it be quickly, if you please, for I long- 

 to see the little fishing-house you spoke of, and to be at my 

 lesson. _ 



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 for- 

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



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

 stand 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. 



