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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. I FIND MYSELF IN A TAVERN BRAWL: AND BARELY ESCAPE. It wanted, maybe, a quarter to seven, that evening, when, passing out at the College Gate on my way to All Hallows' Church, I saw under the lantern there a man loitering and talking with the porter. 'Twas Master Anthony's lackey; and as I came up, he held out a note for me. Deare Jack Wee goe to the Crowne at VI. o'clock, I having mett with Captain Settle, who is on dewty with the horse to- nite, and must to Ahendonn by IX. I looke for you Your unfayned loving A. K. The bearer has left my servise, and his helth conserus me nott. Soe kik him if he tarrie. This last advice I had no time to carry out with any thoroughness: but being put in a great dread by this change of hour, pelted off toward the Corn Market as fast as legs could take me, which was the undoing of a little round citizen into whom I ran full-tilt at the corner of Balliol College: who, before I could see his face in the darkness, was tipp'd on his back in the gutter and using themost dismal expressions. So I left him, considering that my excuses would be unsatisfying to his present demands, and to his cooler judgment a superfluity. The windows of the Crown were cheerfully lit behind their red blinds. A few straddling grooms and troopers talked and spat in the brightness of the entrance, and outside in the street was a servant leading up and down a beautiful sorrel mare, ready saddled, that was mark'd on the near hind leg with a high white stocking. In the passage, I met the host of the Crown, Master John Davenant, and sure (I thought) in what odd corners will the Muse pick up her favorites ! For this slow, loose-cheek'd vintner was 110 less than father to Will Davenant, our Laureate, and had belike read no other ver...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217372428
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217372422
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jan 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 200 gr


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