Don't I see the blue flames come out of your hawse holes ?--mayhap you may be the devil himself, for aught I know--but I trust in the Lord, d'ye see--I never disrated a kinsman, d'ye see, so don't come alongside of me--put about on th'other tack, d'ye see--you need not clap hard a-weather, for you'll soon get to hell again with a flowing sail." So saying, he had recourse to his Paternoster; but perceiving the apparitions approach, he thundered out, "Avast,--avast--sheer off, ye babes of hell, or I'll be foul of your forelights." He accordingly sprung forwards with his hanger, and very probably would have set the spirits on their way to the other world, had he not fallen over a pew in the dark, and entangled himself so much among the benches, that he could not immediately recover his footing.

The triumvirate took this opportunity to retire; and such was the precipitation of Ferret in his retreat, that he encountered a post by which his right eye sustained considerable damage; a circumstance which induced him to inveigh bitterly against his own folly, as well as the impertinence of his companions, who had inveigled him into such a troublesome adventure.

Neither he nor Clarke could be prevailed upon to revisit the novice.

The doctor himself thought his disease was desperate; and, mounting his horse, returned to his own habitation.
Ferret, finding all the beds in the public-house were occupied, composed himself to sleep in a Windsor chair at the chimney corner; and Mr.
Clarke, whose disposition was extremely amorous, resolved to renew his practices on the heart of Dolly.

He had reconnoitred the apartments in which the bodies of the knight and his squire were deposited, and discovered close by the top of the staircase a sort of a closet or hovel, just large enough to contain a truckle bed, which, from some other particulars, he supposed to be the bedchamber of his beloved Dolly, who had by this time retired to her repose.