374 THE COMPLETE AKGLEK. [PART II. 



Fiat. 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. 



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

 you ? 



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

 enough, I assure you. What have we here, a church. 1 As 

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

 churches in this country, sir ? 



Pise. You see we have : but, had you seen none, why 

 should you make that doubt, sir ? 



Viat. Why, if you will not be angry, I'll tell you, I 

 thought myself a stage or two beyond Christendom. 



Pise. Come, coine ! we'll reconcile you to our country 

 before we part with you : if showing you good sport with 

 angling will do it. 



Fiat. My respect to you, and that together may dojnuch, 

 sir : otherwise, to be plain with you, I do not find myself 

 much inclined that way. 



Pise. Well, sir, your raillery upon our mountains has 

 brought us almost home. And look you where the same 

 river of Dove has again met us to bid you welcome, and to 

 invite you to a dish of trouts to-morrow. 



Viat. Is this the same we saw at the foot of Penmen- 

 Maure ? It is a much finer river here. 



Pise. It will appear yet much finer to-morrow. But look 

 you, sir, here appears the house, that is now like to be your 

 inn, for want of a better. 



Fiat. It appears on a sudden, but not before 'twas looked 

 for. It stands prettily, and here's wood about it, too, but 

 so young, as appears to be of your own planting. 



Pise. It is so. Will it please you to alight, sir. And 

 now permit me, after all your pains and dangers, to take 

 you in my arms, and to assure you that you are infinitely 

 welcome. 



Fiat. I thank you, sir, and am glad witli all my heart I 

 am here ; for, in downright truth, I am exceeding weary. 



Pise. You will sleep so much the better : you shall pre- 



1 The church at Alstonefield, a parish in the Hundred of Totmanslow, 

 Co. Stafford, five miles north-north-west from Ashbourn. Er>. 



