{"1": {"fulltext": "iSIR ROGERI\\n1\\nn\u00c2\u00a3}e\u00c2\u00a3]i^ffii\\nm\\nMmi", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap.._ __ Copyright No..\\nShelf _,:a.4--\\n30t^\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "2453", "width": "1522", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2453", "width": "1522", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2453", "width": "1522", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2453", "width": "1522", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2453", "width": "1522", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2422", "width": "1512", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "SIR ROGER\\nCoVer/ey:\\nJo^rep/i\\nJSew York^^ Boston.", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Library of Congr\u00c2\u00ae\u00c2\u00abs\\nIwo Copies Received\\nSEP 6 1900\\nC\u00c2\u00abpynght entry\\nSECOND eery,\\nOflivefsd to\\nOHOt\u00c2\u00ab DIVISION,\\nS EP 18 1900\\nCopyrls^ht, igoo\\nBy H. M. Caldwell Co.\\n6D949", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Preface\\nafterwards. He continues to wear a coat\\nand doublet of the same cut, that were in\\nfashion at the time of his repulse, which, in\\nhis merry humours, he tells us, has been\\nin and out twelve times since he first wore it.\\nHe is now in his fifty-sixth year, ch earful..\\ngay, and hearty keeps a good house both\\nin town and country a great lover of man-\\nkind but there is such a mirthful cast in\\nhis behaviour, that he is rather beloved than\\nesteemed. His tenants grow rich, his ser-\\nvants look satisfied, all the young women\\nprofess love to him, and the young men are\\nglad of his company when he comes into\\na house, he calls the servants by their\\nnames, and talks all the way up stairs to a\\nvisit. I must not omit, that Sir Roger is\\na justice of the quorum that he fills the\\nchair at a quarter-session with great abili-\\nties, and three months ago, gained universal\\napplause, by explaining a passage in the\\ngame-act.", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Contents\\nPreface\\nI\\nSir Roger at Home\\n5\\nSir Roger and Will. Wimble\\n15\\nSir Roger at Church\\n24\\nSir Roger and the Witches\\n33\\nSir Roger at the Assizes\\n43\\nSir Roger and the Gipsies\\n54\\nSir Roger in Town\\n64\\nSir Roger in Westminster Abbey\\n74\\nSir Roger at the Play\\n85\\nSir Roger at Vauxhall\\n96", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER I.\\nSIR ROGER AT HOME\\nTITAVING often received an invita-\\ntion from my friend Sir Roger de\\nCoverley to pass away a month with\\nhim in the country, I last week accom-\\npanied him thither, and am settled with\\nhim for some time at his country-\\nhouse, where I intend to form several\\nof my ensuing speculations. Sir Roger,\\nwho is very well acquainted with my\\n5", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nhumour, lets me rise and go to bed\\nwhen I please dine at his own table,\\nor in my chamber, as I think fit sit\\nstill, and say nothing, without bidding\\nme be merry. When the gentlemen\\nof the country come to see him, he\\nonly shows me at a distance. As I\\nhave been walking in the fields, I have\\nobserved them stealing a sight of me\\nover an hedge, and have heard the\\nknight desiring them not to let me see\\nthem, for that I hated to be stared at.\\nI am the more at ease in Sir Roger s\\nfamily, because it consists of sober and\\nstaid persons for as the knight is\\nthe best master in the world, he seldom\\nchanges his servants and as he is\\nbeloved by all about him, his servants\\nnever care for leaving him by this\\nmeans his domestics are all in years,\\n6", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nand grown old with their master. You\\nwould take his valet de chambre for his\\nbrother his butler is gray-headed his\\ngroom is one of the gravest men that\\nI have ever seen and his coachman\\nhas the looks of a privy-councillor.\\nYou see the goodness of the master\\neven in the old house-dog and in a\\ngray pad, that is kept in the stable with\\ngreat care and tenderness out of regard\\nto his past services, though he has been\\nuseless for several years.\\nI could not but observe, with a great\\ndeal of pleasure, the joy that appeared\\nin the countenances of these ancient\\ndomestics upon my friend s arrival at\\nhis country-seat. Some of them could\\nnot refrain from tears at the sight of\\ntheir old master every one of them\\npressed forward to do something for\\n7", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nhim, and seemed discouraged if they\\nwere not employed. At the same time\\nthe good old knight, with a mixture of\\nthe father and the master of the family,\\ntempered the inquiries after his own\\naffairs with several kind questions re-\\nlating to themselves. This humanity\\nand good nature engages everybody to\\nhim, so that when he is pleasant upon\\nany of them, all his family are in good\\nhumour, and none so much as the per-\\nson whom he diverts himself with on\\nthe contrary, if he coughs, or betrays\\nany infirmity of old age, it is easy for a\\nstander-by to observe a secret concern\\nin the looks of all his servants.\\nMy worthy friend has put me under\\nthe particular care of his butler, who is\\na very prudent man, and, as well as the\\nrest of his fellow servants, wonderfully", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ndesirous of pleasing me, because they\\nhave often heard their master talk of\\nme as of his particular friend.\\nMy chief companion, when Sir Roger\\nis diverting himself in the woods or the\\nfields, is a very venerable man who is\\never with Sir Roger, and has lived at\\nhis house in the nature of a chaplain\\nabove thirty years. This gentleman is\\na person of good sense, and some learn-\\ning, of a very regular life, and obliging\\nconversation he heartily loves Sir\\nRoger, and knows that he is very\\nmuch in the old knight s esteem so\\nthat he lives in the family rather as a\\nrelation than a dependant.\\nI have observed in several of my\\npapers that my friend Sir Roger,\\namidst all his good qualities, is some-\\nthing of an humourist and that his\\n9", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nvirtues, as well as imperfections, are,\\nas it were, tinged by a certain extrava-\\ngance, which makes them particularly\\nhis, and distinguishes them from those\\nof other men. This cast of mind,\\nas it is generally very innocent in it-\\nself, so it renders his conversation\\nhighly agreeable, and more delightful\\nthan the same degree of sense and\\nvirtue would appear in their common\\nand ordinary colours. As I was walk-\\ning with him last night, he asked me\\nhow I liked the good man whom I\\nhave just now mentioned; and, with-\\nout staying for my answer, told me\\nthat he was afraid of being insulted\\nwith Latin and Greek at his own\\ntable for which reason, he desired\\na particular friend of his at the Uni-\\nversity to find him out a clergyman", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nrather of plain sense than much learn-\\ning, of a good aspect, a clear voice,\\na sociable temper, and, if possible, a\\nman that understood a little of back-\\ngammon. My friend (says Sir Roger)\\nfound me out this gentleman, who,\\nbesides the endowments required of\\nhim, is, they tell me, a good scholar,\\nthough he does not show it. I have\\ngiven him the parsonage of the parish\\nand, because I know his value, have\\nsettled upon him a good annuity for\\nlife. If he outlives me, he shall find\\nthat he was higher in my esteem than\\nperhaps he thinks he is. He has now\\nbeen with me thirty years and, though\\nhe does not know I have taken notice\\nof it, has never in all that time asked\\nanything of me for himself, though\\nhe is every day soliciting me for some-", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthing in behalf of one or other of my\\ntenants, his parishioners. There has\\nnot been a lawsuit in the parish since\\nhe has lived among them if any dis-\\npute arises they apply themselves to him\\nfor the decision if they do not ac-\\nquiesce in his judgment, vi^hich I think\\nnever happened above once, or twice\\nat most, they appeal to me. At his\\nfirst settling with me, I made him a\\npresent of all the good sermons which\\nhave been printed in English, and only\\nbegged of him that every Sunday he\\nwould pronounce one of them in the\\npulpit. Accordingly, he has digested\\nthem into such a series that they\\nfollow one another naturally, and\\nmake a continued system of practical\\ndivinity.\\nAs Sir Roger was going on in his", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nstory, the gentleman we were talking\\nof came up to us and upon the\\nknight s asking him who preached to-\\nmorrow (for it was Saturday night),\\ntold us, the Bishop of St. Asaph in\\nthe morning, and Doctor South in the\\nafternoon. He then showed us his\\nlist of preachers for the whole year,\\nwhere I saw with a great deal of\\npleasure. Archbishop Tillotson, Bishop\\nSaunderson, Doctor Barrow, Doctor\\nCalamy, with several living authors\\nwho have published discourses of\\npractical divinity. I no sooner saw\\nthis venerable man in the pulpit, but I\\nvery much approved of my friend s\\ninsisting upon the qualification of a\\ngood aspect and a clear voice for\\nI was so charmed with the gracefulness\\nof his figure and delivery, as well as\\n13", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthe discourses he pronounced, that I\\nthink I never passed any time more\\nto my satisfaction. A sermon repeated\\nafter this manner is like the compo-\\nsition of a poet in the mouth of a\\ngraceful actor.\\nI could heartily wish that more of\\nour country clergy would follow this\\nexample, and, instead of wasting their\\nspirits in laborious compositions of\\ntheir own, would endeavour after a\\nhandsome elocution, and all those other\\ntalents that are proper to enforce what\\nhas been penned by greater masters.\\nThis would not only be more easy\\nto themselves, but more edifying to\\nthe people.\\n14", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER II.\\nSIR ROGER AND WILL. WIMBLE\\n/i S I was yesterday morning walking\\nwith Sir Roger before his house,\\na country fellow brought him a huge\\nfish, which, he told him, Mr. William\\nWimble had caught that very morning\\nand that he presented it with his ser-\\nvice to him, and intended to come and\\ndine with him. At the same time he\\ndelivered a letter, which my friend\\nread to me as soon as the messenger\\nleft him.\\nSir Roger I desire you to accept\\nof a Jack, which is the best I have caught\\n15", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthis season. I intend to come and stay with\\nyou a week, and see how the Perch bite in\\nthe Black river. I observed with some\\nconcern, the last time I saw you upon the\\nBowling-green, that your whip wanted a lash\\nto it I will bring half a dozen with me that\\nI twisted last week, which I hope will serve\\nyou all the time you are in the country. I\\nhave not been out of the saddle for six days\\nlast past, having been at Eaton with Sir\\nJohn s eldest son. He takes to his learning\\nhugely.\\nI am, Sir, your humble Servant,\\nWill. Wimble.\\nThis extraordinary letter, and mes-\\nsage that accompanied it, made me\\nvery curious to know the character\\nand quality of the gentleman who\\nsent them which I found to be as\\nfollows. Will. Wimble is younger\\nbrother to a baronet, and descended\\ni6", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nof the ancient family of the Wimbles.\\nHe is now between forty and fifty\\nbut being bred to no business, and\\nborn to no estate, he generally lives\\nwith his elder brother as superintend-\\nent of his game. He hunts a pack\\nof dogs better than any man in the\\ncountry, and is very famous for find-\\ning out a hare. He is extremely well\\nversed in all the little handicrafts of\\nan idle man he makes a May-fly to\\na miracle; and furnishes the whole\\ncountry with angle-rods. As he is\\na good-natured, officious fellow, and\\nvery much esteemed upon account of\\nhis family, he is a welcome guest at\\nevery house, and keeps up a good\\ncorrespondence among all the gentle-\\nmen about him. He carries a tulip-\\nroot in his pocket from one to another,\\n17", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nor exchanges a puppy between a couple\\nof friends that live perhaps in the op-\\nposite sides of the county. Will, is\\na particular favourite of all the young\\nheirs, whom he frequently obliges with\\na net that he has weaved, or a setting-\\ndog that he has /nade himself; he now\\nand then presents a pair of garters\\nof his own knitting to their mothers\\nor sisters and raises a great deal of\\nmirth among them, by inquiring, as\\noften as he meets them, how they\\nwear These gentleman-like manu-\\nfactures and obliging little humours\\nmake Will, the darling of the coun-\\ntry.\\nSir Roger was proceeding in the\\ncharacter of him, when he saw him\\nmake up to us with two or three\\nhazel-twigs in his hand, that he had\\ni8", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ncut in Sir Roger s woods, as he came\\nthrough them in his way to the house.\\nI was very much pleased to observe on\\none side the hearty and sincere wel-\\ncome with which Sir Roger received\\nhim, and, on the other, the secret joy\\nwhich his guest discovered at sight of\\nthe good old knight. After the first\\nsalutes were over. Will, desired Sir\\nRoger to lend him one of his servants\\nto carry a set of shuttlecocks, he had\\nwith him in a little box, to a lady that\\nlived about a mile ofF, to whom it\\nseems he had promised such a present\\nfor above this half-year. Sir Roger s\\nback was no sooner turned, but honest\\nWill, began to tell me of a large cock\\npheasant that he had sprung in one of\\nthe neighbouring woods, with two or\\nthree other adventures of the same\\n19", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nnature. Odd and uncommon charac-\\nters are the game that I look for, and\\nmost delight in for which reason I\\nwas as much pleased with the novelty\\nof the person that talked to me, as he\\ncould be for his life with the springing\\nof a pheasant, and therefore listened to\\nhim with more than ordinary attention.\\nIn the midst of his discourse the\\nbell rung to dinner, where the gentle-\\nman I have been speaking of had the\\npleasure of seeing the huge Jack he\\nhad caught served up for the first dish\\nin a most sumptuous manner. Upon\\nour sitting down to it, he gave us a\\nlong account how he had hooked it,\\nplayed with it, foiled it, and at length\\ndrew it out upon the bank, with several\\nother particulars, that lasted all the\\nfirst course. A dish of wild fowl, that", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ncame afterward, furnished conversation\\nfor the rest of the dinner, which con-\\ncluded with a late invention of Will. s\\nfor improving the quail-pipe.\\nUpon withdrawing into my room\\nafter dinner, I was secretly touched\\nwith compassion toward the honest\\ngentleman that had dined with us\\nand could not but consider, with a\\ngreat deal of concern, how so good\\nan heart, and such busy hands, were\\nwholly employed in trifles that so\\nmuch humanity should be so little\\nbeneficial to others, and so much in-\\ndustry so little advantageous to him-\\nself. The same temper of mind, and\\napplication to affairs, might have recom-\\nmended him to the public esteem, and\\nhave raised his fortune in another station\\nof life. What good to his country, or\\n21", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nhimself, might not a trader or merchant\\nhave done with such useful, though\\nordinary, qualifications\\nWill. Wimble s is the case of many\\na younger brother of a great family,\\nwho had rather see their children\\nstarve like gentlemen, than thrive in\\na trade or profession that is beneath\\ntheir quality. This humour fills sev-\\neral parts of Europe with pride and\\nbeggary. It is the happiness of a\\ntrading nation, like ours, that the\\nyounger sons, though incapable of any\\nliberal art or profession, may be placed\\nin such a way of life as may perhaps\\nenable them to vie with the best of\\ntheir family accordingly, we find sev-\\neral citizens, that were launched into\\nthe world with narrow fortunes, rising\\nby an honest industry to greater estates\\n22", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthan those of their elder brothers. It\\nis not improbable but Will, was for-\\nmerly tried at divinity, law, or physic\\nand that finding his genius did not lie\\nthat way, his parents gave him up at\\nlength to his own inventions. But\\ncertainly, however improper he might\\nhave been for studies of a higher\\nnature, he was perfectly well turned\\nfor the occupations of trade and com-\\nmerce.\\n23", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER III.\\nSIR ROGER AT CHURCH\\nT AM always very well pleased with\\na country Sunday and think, if\\nkeeping holy the seventh day were\\nonly a human institution, it would be\\nthe best method that could have been\\nthought of for the polishing and civil-\\nising of mankind. It is certain the\\ncountry people would soon degenerate\\ninto a kind of savages and barbarians,\\nwere there not such frequent returns\\nof a stated time, in which the whole\\nvillage meet together with their best\\nfaces, and in their cleanliest habits, to\\n24", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nconverse with one another upon indif-\\nferent subjects, hear their duties ex-\\nplained to them, and join together in\\nadoration of the Supreme Being. Sun-\\nday clears away the rust of the whole\\nweek, not only as it refreshes in their\\nminds the notions of religion, but as\\nit puts both the sexes upon appearing\\nin their most agreeable forms, and ex-\\nerting all such qualities as are apt to\\ngive them a figure in the eye of the\\nvillage. A country fellow distinguishes\\nhimself as much in the churchyard as\\na citizen does upon the Change, the\\nwhole parish politics being generally\\ndiscussed in that place either after\\nsermon or before the bell rings.\\nMy friend Sir Roger, being a good\\nchurchman, has beautified the inside\\nof his church with several texts of his\\n25", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nown choosing he has likewise given\\na handsome pulpit-cloth, and railed in\\nthe communion-table at his own ex-\\npense. He has often told me that at\\nhis coming to his estate he found his\\nparishioners very irregular and that in\\norder to make them kneel and join in\\nthe responses, he gave every one of\\nthem a hassock and a Common Prayer\\nBook and at the same time em-\\nployed an itinerant singing-master,\\nwho goes about the country for that\\npurpose, to instruct them rightly in\\nthe tunes of the psalms upon which\\nthey now very much value them-\\nselves and indeed outdo most of\\nthe country churches that I have ever\\nheard.\\nAs Sir Roger is landlord to the\\nwhole congregation, he keeps them\\n26", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nin very good order, and will suffer\\nnobody to sleep in it besides him-\\nself j for if by chance he has been\\nsurprised into a short nap at sermon,\\nupon recovering out of it he stands up\\nand looks about him, and if he sees\\nanybody else nodding, either wakes\\nthem himself, or sends his servant\\nto them. Several other of the old\\nknight s particularities break out upon\\nthese occasions sometimes he will be\\nlengthening out a verse in the singing-\\npsalms half a minute after the rest of\\nthe congregation have done with it\\nsometimes, when he is pleased with\\nthe matter of his devotion, he pro-\\nnounces Amen three or four times to\\nthe same prayer and sometimes stands\\nup, when everybody else is upon their\\nknees, to count the congregation, or\\n27", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nsee if any of his tenants are miss-\\ning.\\nI was yesterday very much surprised\\nto hear my old friend, in the midst of\\nthe service, calling out to one John\\nMatthews to mind what he was\\nabout, and not disturb the congrega-\\ntion. This John Matthews, it seems,\\nis remarkable for being an idle fellow,\\nand at that time was kicking his heels\\nfor his diversion. This authority of\\nthe knight, though exerted in that odd\\nmanner which accompanies him in all\\ncircumstances of life, has a very good\\neffect upon the parish, who are not\\npolite enough to see anything ridiculous\\nin his behaviour; besides that, the gen-\\neral good sense and worthiness of his\\ncharacter make his friends observe these\\nlittle singularities as foils that rather\\n28", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nset ofF than blemish his good quali-\\nties.\\nAs soon as the sermon is finished,\\nnobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger\\nis gone out of the church. The knight\\nwalks down from his seat in the chan-\\ncel between a double row of his ten-\\nants, that stand bowing to him on each\\nside and every now and then he in-\\nquires how such an one s wife, or\\nmother, or son, or father do, whom\\nhe does not see at church which is\\nunderstood as a secret reprimand to\\nthe person that is absent.\\nThe chaplain has often told me\\nthat upon a catechising-day, when Sir\\nRoger has been pleased with a boy\\nthat answers well, he has ordered a\\nBible to be given him next day for\\nhis encouragement and sometimes ac-\\n29", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ncompanies it with a flitch of bacon\\nto his mother. Sir Roger has likewise\\nadded five pounds a year to the clerk s\\nplace and that he may encourage the\\nyoung fellows to make themselves per-\\nfect in the church-service, has promised,\\nupon the death of the present incum-\\nbent, who is very old, to bestow it\\naccording to merit.\\nThe fair understanding between Sir\\nRoger and his chaplain, and their mutual\\nconcurrence in doing good, is the more\\nremarkable, because the very next vil-\\nlage is famous for the differences and\\ncontentions that rise between the par-\\nson and the squire, who live in a per-\\npetual state of war. The parson is\\nalways at the squire, and the squire,\\nto be revenged on the parson, never\\ncomes to church. The squire has\\n30", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nmade all his tenants atheists and tithe-\\nstealers while the parson instructs\\nthem every Sunday in the dignity of\\nhis order, and insinuates to them, al-\\nmost in every sermon, that he is a\\nbetter man than his patron. In short,\\nmatters are come to such an extremity\\nthat the squire has not said his prayers\\neither in public or private this half\\nyear; and that the parson threatens\\nhim, if he does not mend his manners,\\nto pray for him in the face of the\\nw^hole congregation.\\nFeuds of this nature, though too\\nfrequent in the country, are very fatal\\nto the ordinary people w^ho are so\\nused to be dazzled with riches that\\nthey pay as much deference to the\\nunderstanding of a man of an estate,\\nas of a man of learning and are very\\n31", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nhardly brought to regard any truth,\\nhow important soever it may be, that\\nis preached to them, when they know\\nthere are several men of five hundred\\na year who do not believe it.\\n32", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nSIR ROGER AND THE WITCHES\\nnr^HERE are some opinions in which\\na man should stand neuter, with-\\nout engaging his assent to one side or\\nthe other. Such a hovering faith as\\nthis, which refuses to settle upon any\\ndetermination, is absolutely necessary\\nin a mind that is careful to avoid\\nerrors and prepossessions. When the\\narguments press equally on both sides\\nin matters that are indifferent to us,\\nthe safest method is to give up our-\\nselves to neither.\\nIt is with this temper of mind that\\n33", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nI consider the subject of witchcraft.\\nWhen I hear the relations that are\\nmade from all parts of the world, not\\nonly from Norway and Lapland, from\\nthe East and West Indies, but from\\nevery particular nation in Europe, I\\ncannot forbear thinking that there is\\nsuch an intercourse and commerce\\nwith evil spirits as that which we\\nexpress by the name of witchcraft.\\nBut when I consider that the igno-\\nrant and credulous parts of the world\\nabound most in these relations, and\\nthat the persons among us who are\\nsupposed to engage in such an infernal\\ncommerce are people of a weak under-\\nstanding and crazed imagination, and\\nat the same time reflect upon the many\\nimpostures and delusions of this nature\\nthat have been detected in all ages, I\\n34", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nendeavour to suspend my belief, till\\nI hear more certain accounts than any\\nwhich have yet come to my knowledge.\\nIn short, when I consider the question.\\nWhether there are such persons in the\\nworld as those we call witches my\\nmind is divided between two opposite\\nopinions or, rather (to speak my\\nthoughts freely), I believe in general\\nthat there is, and has been, such a\\nthing as witchcraft but at the same\\ntime can give no credit to any particu-\\nlar instance of it.\\nI am engaged in this speculation, by\\nsome occurrences that I met with yes-\\nterday, which I shall give my reader an\\naccount of at large. As I was walking\\nwith my friend Sir Roger, by the side\\nof one of his woods, an old woman\\napplied herself to me for my charity.\\n35", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nHer dress and figure put me in mind\\nof the following description in Otway\\nIn a close lane, as I pursued my journey,\\nI spied a wrinkled hag, with age grown\\ndouble,\\nPicking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.\\nHer eyes with scalding rheum were galled\\nand red\\nCold palsy shook her head her hands\\nseemed withered\\nAnd on her crooked shoulders had she\\nwrapped\\nThe tattered remnants of an old stripped\\nhanging.\\nWhich served to keep her carcass from the\\ncold.\\nSo there was nothing of a piece about her,\\nHer lower weeds were all o er coarsely\\npatched\\nWith different coloured rags, black, red,\\nwhite, yellow,\\nAnd seemed to speak variety of wretched-\\nness.\\n36", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nAs I was musing on this description,\\nand comparing it with the object before\\nme, the knight told me that this very\\nold woman had the reputation of a\\nwitch all over the country, that her\\nlips were observed to be always in\\nmotion, and that there was not a switch\\nabout her house which her neighbours\\ndid not believe had carried her several\\nhundreds of miles. If she chanced to\\nstumble, they always found sticks or\\nstraws that lay in the figure of a cross\\nbefore her. If she made any mistake\\nat church, and cried Amen in a wrong\\nplace, they never failed to conclude that\\nshe was saying her prayers backwards.\\nThere was not a maid in the parish that\\nwould take a pin of her, though she\\nshould offer a bag of money with it.\\nShe goes by the name of Moll White,\\n37", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nand has made the country ring with\\nseveral imaginary exploits which are\\npalmed upon her. If the dairy-maid\\ndoes not make her butter to come so\\nsoon as she would have it, Moll White\\nis at the bottom of the churn. If a\\nhorse sweats in the stable, Moll White\\nhas been upon his back. If a hare\\nmakes an unexpected escape from the\\nhounds, the huntsman curses Moll\\nWhite. Nay (says Sir Roger), I have\\nknown the master of the pack, upon\\nsuch an occasion, send one of his ser-\\nvants to see if Moll White had been\\nout that morning.\\nThis account raised my curiosity so\\nfar that I begged my friend Sir Roger\\nto go with me into her hovel, which\\nstood in a solitary corner under the side\\nof the wood. Upon our first entering,\\n38", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nSir Roger winked to me, and pointed\\nto something that stood behind the\\ndoor, which, upon looking that way, I\\nfound to be an old broom-stafF. At the\\nsame time he whispered me in the ear,\\nto take notice of a tabby cat that sat\\nin the chimney-corner, which, as the\\nknight told me, lay under as bad a\\nreport as Moll White herself; for,\\nbesides that Moll is said often to\\naccompany her in the same shape, the\\ncat is reported to have spoken twice or\\nthrice in her life, and to have played\\nseveral pranks above the capacity of an\\nordinary cat.\\nI was secretly concerned to see\\nhuman nature in so much wretched-\\nness and disgrace, but at the same time\\ncould not forbear smiling to hear Sir\\nRoger, who is a little puzzled about the\\n39", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nold woman, advising her, as a justice of\\npeace, to avoid all communication with\\nthe devil, and never to hurt any of her\\nneighbours cattle. We concluded our\\nvisit with a bounty, which was very\\nacceptable.\\nIn our return home. Sir Roger told\\nme that old Moll had been often\\nbrought before him for making chil-\\ndren spit pins, and giving maids the\\nnightmare and that the country people\\nwould be tossing her into a pond,\\nand trying experiments with her every\\nday, if it was not for him and his\\nchaplain.\\nI have since found, upon inquiry,\\nthat Sir Roger was several times stag-\\ngered with the reports that had been\\nbrought him concerning this old\\nwoman, and would frequently have\\n40", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nbound her over to the county ses-\\nsions had not his chaplain with much\\nado persuaded him to the contrary.\\nI have been the more particular in\\nthis account, because I hear there is\\nscarce a village in England that has not\\na Moll White in it. When an old\\nwoman begins to dote, and grow\\nchargeable to a parish, she is gener-\\nally turned into a witch, and fills the\\nwhole country with extravagant fan-\\ncies, imaginary distempers, and terrify-\\ning dreams. In the meantime the poor\\nwretch that is the innocent occasion of\\nso many evils begins to be frighted at\\nherself, and sometimes confesses secret\\ncommerces and familiarities that her\\nimagination forms in a delirious old age.\\nThis frequently cuts ofF charity from\\nthe greatest objects of compassion, and\\n41", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ninspires people with a malevolence to-\\nward those poor decrepit parts of our\\nspecies in whom human nature is\\ndefaced by infirmity and dotage.\\n42", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER V.\\nSIR ROGER AT THE ASSIZES\\nMAN S first care should be to\\navoid the reproaches of his own\\nheart his next, to escape the censures\\nof the world if the last interferes with\\nthe former, it ought to be entirely neg-\\nlected but otherwise there cannot be\\na greater satisfaction to an honest\\nmind than to see those approbations\\nwhich it gives itself seconded by the\\napplauses of the public a man is more\\nsure of his conduct, when the verdict\\n43", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nwhich he passes upon his own beha-\\nviour is thus warranted and confirmeti\\nby the opinion of all that know him.\\nMy worthy friend Sir Roger is one ot\\nthose who is not only at peace within\\nhimself, but beloved and esteemed by\\nall about him. He receives a suit-\\nable tribute for his universal benevo-\\nlence to mankind, in the returns of\\naffection and good-will which are paid\\nhim by every one that lives within his\\nneighbourhood. I lately met with two\\nor three odd instances of that general\\nrespect which is shown to the good old\\nknight. He would needs carry Will-\\nWimble and myself with him to the\\ncountry assizes as we were upon the\\nroad. Will. Wimble joined a couple of\\nplain men who rid before us, and con-\\nversed with them for some time, during\\n44", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nwhich my friend Sir Roger acquainted\\nme with their characters.\\nThe first of them, says he, that hath\\na spaniel by his side, is a yeoman of\\nabout a hundred pounds a year, an\\nhonest man he is just within the game\\nact, and qualified to kill an hare or a\\npheasant he knocks down a dinner\\nwith his gun twice or thrice a week,\\nand by that means lives much cheaper\\nthan those who have not so good an\\nestate as himself. He would be a good\\nneighbour if he did not destroy so\\nmany partridges in short, he is a very\\nsensible man shoots flying and has\\nbeen several times foreman of the\\npetty-jury.\\nThe other that rides with him is\\nTom Touchy, a fellow famous for\\ntaking the law of everybody. There\\n45", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nis not one in the town where he lives\\nthat he has not sued at a quarter-\\nsessions. The rogue had once the\\nimpudence to go to law with the\\nwidow. His head is full of costs,\\ndamages, and ejectments he plagued\\na couple of honest gentlemen so long\\nfor a trespass in breaking one of his\\nhedges, till he was forced to sell the\\nground it enclosed to defray the charges\\nof the prosecution. His father left\\nhim fourscore pounds a year but he\\nhas cast and been cast so often that\\nhe is not now worth thirty. I suppose\\nhe is going upon the old business of\\nthe willow-tree.\\nAs Sir Roger was giving me this ac-\\ncount of Tom Touchy, Will. Wimble\\nand his two companions stopped short\\ntill we came up to them. After hav-\\n46", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ning paid their respects to Sir Roger,\\nWill, told him that Mr. Touchy and he\\nmust appeal to him upon a dispute\\nthat arose between them. Will., it\\nseems, had been giving his fellow-\\ntravellers an account of his angling\\none day in such a hole when Tom\\nTouchy, instead of hearing out his\\nstory, told him that Mr. such an one,\\nif he pleased, might take the law of\\nhim for fishing in that part of the\\nriver. My friend Sir Roger heard\\nthem both, upon a round trot, and\\nafter having paused some time, told\\nthem, with an air of a man who\\nwould not give his judgment rashly,\\nthat much might be said on both sides.\\nThey were neither of them dissatisfied\\nwith the knight s determination, be-\\ncause neither of them found himself\\n47", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nin the wrong by it upon which we\\nmade the best of our way to the\\nassizes.\\nThe court was sat before Sir Roger\\ncame, but notwithstanding all the jus-\\ntices had taken their places upon the\\nbench, they made room for the old\\nknight at the head of them who, for\\nhis reputation in the country, took\\noccasion to whisper in the judge s ear\\nthat he was glad his lordship had met\\nwith so much good weather in his\\ncircuit. I was listening to the pro-\\nceedings of the court with much at-\\ntention, and infinitely pleased with\\nthat great appearance of solemnity\\nwhich so properly accompanies such\\na public administration of our laws\\nwhen, after about an hour s sitting,\\nI observed, to my great surprise, in", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthe midst of a trial, that my friend\\nSir Roger was getting up to speak.\\nI was in some pain for him, till I\\nfound he had acquitted himself of\\ntwo or three sentences with a look\\nof much business and great intrepidity.\\nUpon his first rising, the court was\\nhushed, and a general whisper ran\\namong the country people that Sir\\nRoger was up. The speech he made\\nwas so little to the purpose, that I\\nshall not trouble my readers with an\\naccount of it and I believe was not\\nso much designed by the knight him-\\nself to inform the court, as to give\\nhim a figure in my eye, and keep up\\nhis credit in the country.\\nI was highly delighted, when the\\ncourt rose, to see the gentlemen of the\\ncountry gathering about my old friend,\\n49", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nand striving who should compliment\\nhim most at the same time that the\\nordinary people gazed upon him at\\na distance, not a little admiring his\\ncourage, that was not afraid to speak\\nto the judge.\\nIn our return home we met with\\na very odd accident, which I cannot\\nforbear relating, because it shows how\\ndesirous all who know Sir Roger are of\\ngiving him marks of their esteem.\\nWhen we were arrived upon the verge\\nof his estate, we stopped at a little\\ninn to rest ourselves and our horses.\\nThe man of the house had, it seems,\\nbeen formerly a servant in the knight s\\nfamily, and, to do honour to his old\\nmaster, had some time since, unknown\\nto Sir Roger, put him up in a sign-post\\nbefore the door so that The Knight s\\n50", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nHead had hung out upon the road\\nabout a week before he himself knew\\nanything of the matter. As soon as Sir\\nRoger was acquainted with it, finding\\nthat his servant s indiscretion proceeded\\nwholly from affection and good-will, he\\nonly told him that he had made him\\ntoo high a compliment and when\\nthe fellow seemed to think that could\\nhardly be, added, with a more decisive\\nlook, that it was too great an honour\\nfor any man under a duke but told\\nhim, at the same time, that it might\\nbe altered with a very few touches,\\nand that he himself would be at the\\ncharge of it. Accordingly they got\\na painter by the knight s directions\\nto add a pair of whiskers to the face,\\nand by a little aggravation of the\\nfeatures to change it into the Saracen s\\nSI", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nHead. I should not have known this\\nstory, had not the innkeeper, upon\\nSir Roger s alighting, told him in my\\nhearing that his Honour s head was\\nbrought back last night, with the al-\\nterations that he had ordered to be\\nmade in it. Upon this my friend,\\nwith his usual cheerfulness, related\\nthe particulars above-mentioned, and\\nordered the head to be brought into\\nthe room. I could not forbear dis-\\ncovering greater expressions of mirth\\nthan ordinary upon the appearance\\nof this monstrous face, under which,\\nnotwithstanding it was made to frown\\nand stare in the most extraordinary\\nmanner, I could still discover a dis-\\ntant resemblance of my old friend.\\nSir Roger, upon seeing me laugh, de-\\nsired me to tell him truly if I thought\\n52", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nit possible for people to know him\\nin that disguise. I at first kept my\\nusual silence j but upon the knight s\\nconjuring me to tell him whether it\\nwas not still more like himself than a\\nSaracen, 1 composed my countenance\\nin the best manner I could, and re-\\nplied, That much might be said on\\nboth sides.\\nThese several adventures, with the\\nknight s behaviour in them, gave me\\nas pleasant a day as ever I met with\\nin any of my travels.\\n53", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nSIR ROGER AND THE GIPSIES\\nS I was yesterday riding out in the\\nfields with my friend Sir Roger,\\nwe saw at a little distance from us a\\ntroop of gipsies. Upon the first dis-\\ncovery of them, my friend was in some\\ndoubt whether he should not exert the\\njustice of peace upon such a band of\\nlawless vagrants but not having his\\nclerk with him, who is a necessary\\ncounsellor on these occasions, and\\nfearing that his poultry might fare\\nthe worse for it, he let the thought\\ndrop. But at the same time gave me\\n54", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\na particular account of the mischiefs\\nthey do in the country, in stealing\\npeople s goods, and spoiling their ser-\\nvants. If a stray piece of linen hangs\\nupon an hedge (says Sir Roger), they\\nare sure to have it if a hog loses his\\nway in the fields, it is ten to one but\\nhe becomes their prey our geese can-\\nnot live in peace for them. If a man\\nprosecutes them with severity, his hen-\\nroost is sure to pay for it. They gen-\\nerally straggle into these parts about\\nthis time of the year and set the\\nheads of our servant-maids so agog for\\nhusbands, that we do not expect to\\nhave any business done as it should\\nbe, whilst they are in the country.\\nI have an honest dairymaid who\\ncrosses their hands with a piece of\\nsilver every summer and never fails\\n55", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nbeing promised the handsomest young\\nfellow in the parish for her pains.\\nYour friend the butler has been fool\\nenough to be seduced by them and\\nthough he is sure to lose a knife, a\\nfork, or a spoon, every time his for-\\ntune is told him, generally shuts him-\\nself up in the pantry with an old\\ngipsy for about half an hour once\\nin a twelvemonth. Sweethearts are\\nthe things they live upon, which they\\nbestow very plentifully upon all those\\nthat apply themselves to them. You\\nsee now and then some handsome\\nyoung jades among them the sluts\\nhave very often white teeth and black\\neyes.\\nSir Roger observing that I listened\\nwith great attention to his account of\\na people who were so entirely new to\\n56", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nme, told me that, if I would, they\\nshould tell us our fortunes. As I was\\nvery well pleased with the knight s\\nproposal, we rid up and communi-\\ncated our hands to them. A Cas-\\nsandra of the crew, after having\\nexamined my lines very diligently,\\ntold me that I loved a pretty maid in\\na corner, that I was a good woman s\\nman, with some other particulars which\\nI do not think proper to relate. My\\nfriend Sir Roger alighted from his\\nhorse, and exposing his palm to two\\nor three that stood by him, they\\ncrumpled it into all shapes, and dili-\\ngently scanned every wrinkle that\\ncould be made in it when one of\\nthem, who was older and more sun-\\nburnt than the rest, told him that he\\nhad a widow in his line of life upon\\n57\\nr", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nwhich the knight cried, Go, go, you\\nare an idle baggage and at the same\\ntime smiled upon me. The gipsy find-\\ning he was not displeased in his heart,\\ntold him, after a further inquiry into\\nhis hand, that his true love was\\nconstant, and that she should dream\\nof him to-night. My old friend cried\\npish, and bid her go on. The gipsy\\ntold him that he was a bachelor, but\\nwould not be so long and that he\\nwas dearer to somebody than he\\nthought. The knight still repeated\\nshe was an idle baggage, and bid her\\ngo on. Ah, master (says the gipsy),\\nthat roguish leer of yours makes a\\npretty woman s heart ache you ha n t\\nthat simper about the mouth for\\nnothing. The uncouth gibberish with\\nwhich all this was uttered, like the\\n58", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ndarkness of an oracle, made us the\\nmore attentive to it. To be short,\\nthe knight left the money with her\\nthat he had crossed her hand with,\\nand got up again on his horse.\\nAs we were riding away, Sir Roger\\ntold me that he knew several sensible\\npeople who believed these gipsies now\\nand then foretold very strange things\\nand for half an hour together appeared\\nmore jocund than ordinary. In the\\nheight of this good humour, meeting a\\ncommon beggar upon the road who\\nwas no conjurer, as he went to relieve\\nhim, he found his pocket was picked\\nthat being a kind of palmistry at which\\nthis race of vermin are very dexterous.\\nI might here entertain my reader\\nwith historical remarks on this idle,\\nprofligate people, who infest all the\\n59", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ncountries of Europe, and live in the\\nmidst of governments in a kind of\\ncommonwealth by themselves. But,\\ninstead of entering into observations\\nof this nature, I shall fill the remain-\\ning part of my paper with a story\\nwhich is still fresh in Holland, and\\nwas printed in one of our monthly\\naccounts about twenty years ago. As\\nthe Trekschuyt, or Hackney-boat,\\nwhich carries passengers from Leyden\\nto Amsterdam, was putting off, a boy\\nrunning along the side of the canal\\ndesired to be taken in which the\\nmaster of the boat refused, because\\nthe lad had not quite money enough\\nto pay the usual fare. An eminent\\nmerchant being pleased with the looks\\nof the boy, and secretly touched with\\ncompassion toward him, paid the\\n60", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nmoney for him, and ordered him to\\nbe taken on board. Upon talking\\nwith him afterward, he found that\\nhe could speak readily in three or four\\nlanguages, and learned, upon further\\nexamination, that he had been stolen\\naway when he was a child by a gipsy,\\nand had rambled ever since with a\\ngang of those strollers up and down\\nseveral parts of Europe. It happened\\nthat the merchant, whose heart seems\\nto have inclined towards the boy by a\\nsecret kind of instinct, had himself\\nlost a child some years before. The\\nparents, after a long search for him,\\ngave him for drowned in one of\\nthe canals with which that country\\nabounds and the mother was so af-\\nflicted at the loss of a fine boy, who\\nwas her only son, that she died for\\n6i", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ngrief of it. Upon laying together all\\nparticulars, and examining the several\\nmoles and marks by which the mother\\nused to describe the child when he\\nwas first missing, the boy proved to\\nbe the son of the merchant, whose\\nheart had so unaccountably melted at\\nthe sight of him. The lad was very\\nwell pleased to find a father who was\\nso rich, and likely to leave him a good\\nestate the father, on the other hand,\\nwas not a little delighted to see a son\\nreturn to him, whom he had given for\\nlost, with such a strength of constitu-\\ntion, sharpness of understanding, and\\nskill in languages. Here the printed\\nstory leaves off; but if I may give\\ncredit to reports, our linguist, having\\nreceived such extraordinary rudiments\\ntoward a good education, was after-\\n62", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nward trained up in everything that\\nbecomes a gentleman wearing off,\\nby little and little, all the vicious\\nhabits and practices that he had been\\nused to in the course of his peregrina-\\ntions nay, it is said that he has since\\nbeen employed in foreign courts upon\\nnational business, with great reputation\\nto himself, and honour to those who\\nsent him, and that he has visited\\nseveral countries as a public minister,\\nin which he formerly wandered as a\\ngipsy.\\n63", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nSIR ROGER IN TOWN\\nT WAS this morning surprised with\\na great knocking at the door, when\\nmy landlady s daughter came up to me\\nand told me there was a man below\\ndesired to speak with me. Upon my\\nasking her who it was, she told me\\nit was a very grave elderly person, but\\nthat she did not know his name. I\\nimmediately went down to him, and\\nfound him to be the coachman of my\\nworthy friend Sir Roger de Coverley.\\nHe told me that his master came to\\ntown last night, and would be glad to\\n64", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ntake a turn with me in Grays-Inn\\nwalks. As I was wondering in my-\\nself what had brought Sir Roger to\\ntown, not having lately received any\\nletter from him, he told me that his\\nmaster was come up to get a sight of\\nPrince Eugene, and that he desired I\\nwould immediately meet him.\\nI was not a little pleased with the\\ncuriosity of the old knight, though I\\ndid not much wonder at it, having\\nheard him say more than once, in pri-\\nvate discourse, that he looked upon\\nPrince Eugenio (for so the knight\\nalways calls him) to be a greater man\\nthan Scanderbeg.\\nI was no sooner come into Grays-\\nInn walks, but I heard my friend upon\\nthe terrace hemming twice or thrice to\\nhimself with great vigour, for he loves\\n65", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nto clear his pipes in good air (to make\\nuse of his own phrase), and is not a\\nlittle pleased with any one who takes\\nnotice of the strength which he still\\nexerts in his morning hems.\\nI was touched with a secret joy at\\nthe sight of the good old man, who\\nbefore he saw me was engaged in con-\\nversation with a beggar-man that had\\nasked an alms of him. I could hear\\nmy friend chide him for not finding\\nout some work but at the same time\\nsaw him put his hand in his pocket\\nand give him sixpence.\\nOur salutations were very hearty on\\nboth sides, consisting of many kind\\nshakes of the hand, and several affec-\\ntionate looks which we cast upon one\\nanother. After which the knight told\\nme my good friend his chaplain was\\n66", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nvery well, and much at my service,\\nand that the Sunday before he had\\nmade a most incomparable sermon out\\nof Doctor Barrow. I have left, says\\nhe, all my affairs in his hands, and\\nbeing willing to lay an obligation upon\\nhim, have deposited with him thirty\\nmarks, to be distributed among his\\npoor parishioners.\\nHe then proceeded to acquaint me\\nwith the welfare of Will. Wimble.\\nUpon which he put his hand into his\\nfob, and presented me in his name\\nwith a tobacco stopper, telling me that\\nWill, had been busy all the beginning\\nof the winter In turning great quanti-\\nties of them and that he made a\\npresent of one to every gentleman in\\nthe country who has good principles,\\nand smokes. He added that poor\\n67", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nWill, was at present under great tribu-\\nlation, for that Tom Touchy had taken\\nthe law of him for cutting some hazel\\nsticks out of one of his hedges.\\nAmong other pieces of news which\\nthe knight brought from his country-\\nseat, he informed me that Moll White\\nwas dead and that about a month after\\nher death the wind was so very high\\nthat it blew down the end of one of\\nhis barns. But for my part, says Sir\\nRoger, I do not think that the old\\nwoman had any hand in it.\\nHe afterward fell into an account\\nof the diversions which had passed in\\nhis house during the holidays, for Sir\\nRoger, after the laudable custom of his\\nancestors, always keeps open house at\\nChristmas. I learned from him, that\\nhe had killed eight fat hogs for this\\n68", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nseason, that he had dealt about his\\nchines very Hberally amongst his neigh-\\nbours, and that in particular he had\\nsent a string of hog s puddings with a\\npack of cards to every poor family in\\nthe parish. I have often thought,\\nsays Sir Roger, it happens very well\\nthat Christmas should fall out in the\\nmiddle of the winter. It is the most\\ndead, uncomfortable time of the year,\\nwhen the poor people would suffer\\nvery much from their poverty and\\ncold, if they had not good cheer,\\nwarm fires, and Christmas gambols\\nto support them. I love to rejoice\\ntheir poor hearts at this season, and\\nto see the whole village merry in my\\ngreat hall. I allow a double quantity\\nof malt to my small beer, and set it a\\nrunning for twelve days to every one\\n69", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthat calls for it. I have always a piece\\nof cold beef and a mince-pie upon\\nthe table, and am wonderfully pleased\\nto see my tenants pass away a whole\\nevening in playing their innocent tricks,\\nand smutting one another. Our friend\\nWill. Wimble is as merry as any of\\nthem, and shows a thousand roguish\\ntricks upon these occasions.\\nI was very much delighted with the\\nreflection of my old friend, which\\ncarried so much goodness in it. He\\nthen launched out into the praise of\\nthe late act of Parliament for secur-\\ning the Church of England, and told\\nme, with great satisfaction, that he\\nbelieved it already began to take\\neffect for that a rigid dissenter, who\\nchanced to dine at his house on\\nChristmas Day, had been observed to\\n70", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\neat very plentifully of his plum-por-\\nridge.\\nAfter having despatched all our coun-\\ntry matters, Sir Roger made several\\ninquiries concerning the club, and\\nparticularly of his old antagonist. Sir\\nAndrew Freeport. He asked me,\\nwith a kind smile, whether Sir Andrew\\nhad not taken the advantage of his\\nabsence to vent among them some\\nof his republican doctrines but soon\\nafter gathering up his countenance into\\na more than ordinary seriousness, Tell\\nme truly, says he, don t you think\\nSir Andrew had a hand in the pope s\\nprocession but without giving me\\ntime to answer him, Well, well,\\nsays he, I know you are a wary\\nman, and do not care to talk of public\\nmatters,\\n71", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nThe knight then asked me if I\\nhad seen Prince Eugene and made\\nme promise to get him a stand in\\nsome convenient place, where he might\\nhave a full sight of that extraordinary\\nman, whose presence does so much\\nhonour to the British nation. He\\ndwelt very long on the praises of this\\ngreat general, and I found that since\\nI was with him in the country, he\\nhad drawn many observations together\\nout of his reading In Baker s Chronicle,\\nand other authors, who always He In\\nhis hall window, which very much\\nredound to the honour of this prince.\\nHaving passed away the greatest\\npart of the morning in hearing the\\nknight s reflections, which were partly\\nprivate and partly political, he asked\\nme if I would smoke a pipe with\\n72", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nhim over a dish of coffee at Squire s.\\nAs I love the old man, I take a de-\\nlight in complying with everything that\\nis agreeable to him, and accordingly\\nwaited on him to the coffee-house,\\nwhere his venerable figure drew upon\\nus the eyes of the whole room. He had\\nno sooner seated himself at the upper\\nend of the high table, but he called\\nfor a clean pipe, a paper of tobacco,\\na dish of coffee, a wax candle, and\\nthe Supplement, with such an air of\\ncheerfulness and good humour, that\\nall the boys in the coffee-room (who\\nseemed to take pleasure in serving\\nhim) were at once employed on his\\nseveral errands, insomuch that nobody\\nelse could come at a dish of tea till\\nthe knight had got all his conveniences\\nabout him.\\nn", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nSIR ROGER IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY\\nTVyT Y friend Sir Roger de Coverley told\\nme, the other night, that he had\\nbeen reading my paper upon Westmin-\\nster Abbey, in which, says he, there are\\na great many ingenious fancies. He\\ntold me at the same time, that he ob-\\nserved I had promised another paper\\nupon the tombs, and that he should be\\nglad to go and see them with me, not\\nhaving visited them since he read his-\\ntory. I could not at first imagine how\\nthis came into the knight s head, till I\\nrecollected that he had been very busy\\n74", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nall last summer upon Baker s Chronicle,\\nwhich he has quoted several times in\\nhis dispute with Sir Andrew Freeport\\nsince his last coming to town. Accord-\\ningly I called upon him the next morn-\\ning, that we might go together to the\\nAbbey.\\nI found the knight under his butler s\\nhands, who always shaves him. He was\\nno sooner dressed, than he called for\\na glass of the widow Trueby s water,\\nwhich, he told me, he always drank be-\\nfore he went abroad. He recommended\\nto me a dram of it at the same time,\\nwith so much heartiness that I could\\nnot forbear drinking it. As soon as\\nI had got it down, I found it very\\nunpalatable upon which the knight,\\nobserving that I had made several wry\\nfaces, told me that he knew I should\\n75", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nnot like it at first, but that it was\\nthe best thing in the world against the\\nstone or gravel.\\nI could have wished, indeed, that\\nhe had acquainted me with the virtues\\nof it sooner but it was too late to\\ncomplain, and I knew what he had\\ndone was out of good-will. Sir Roger\\ntold me, further, that he looked upon\\nit to be very good for a man, whilst\\nhe stayed in town, to keep off infection,\\nand that he got together a quantity\\nof it upon the first news of the sick-\\nness being at Dantzic when of a\\nsudden, turning short to one of his\\nservants, who stood behind him, he\\nbid him call a hackney-coach, and\\ntake care it was an elderly man that\\ndrove it.\\nHe then resumed his discourse upon\\n76", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nMrs. Trueby s water, telling me that\\nthe widow Trueby was one who did\\nmore good than all the doctors and\\napothecaries in the county that she\\ndistilled every poppy that grew within\\nfive miles of her, that she distributed\\nher water gratis among all sorts of\\npeople; to which the knight added\\nthat she had a very great jointure, and\\nthat the whole country would fain have\\nit a match between him and her and\\ntruly, says Sir Roger, if I had not\\nbeen engaged, perhaps I could not have\\ndone better.\\nHis discourse was broken off by his\\nm.an s telling him he had called a coach.\\nUpon our going to it, after having cast\\nhis eye upon the wheels, he asked the\\ncoachman if his axletree was good\\nupon the fellow s telling him he would\\nn", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nwarrant it, the knight turned to me,\\ntold me he looked like an honest man,\\nand went in without further ceremony.\\nWe had not gone far, when Sir\\nRoger, popping out his head, called\\nthe coachman down from his box, and,\\nupon his presenting himself at the win-\\ndow, asked him if he smoked as I\\nwas considering what this would end\\nin, he bid him stop by the way at any\\ngood tobacconist s and take in a roll\\nof their best Virginia. Nothing mate-\\nrial happened in the remaining part of\\nour journey, till we were set down at\\nthe west end of the Abbey.\\nAs we went up the body of the\\nchurch, the knight pointed at the\\ntrophies upon one of the new monu-\\nments, and cried out, A brave man,\\nI warrant him Passing afterward\\n78", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nby Sir Cloudsly Shovel, he flung his\\nhand that way, and cried, Sir Cloudsly\\nShovel a very gallant man As we\\nstood before Busby s tomb, the knight\\nuttered himself again, after the same\\nmanner, Doctor Busby, a great man\\nhe whipped my grandfather a very\\ngreat man I should have gone to him\\nmyself, if I had not been a blockhead\\na very great man\\nWe were immediately conducted into\\nthe little chapel on the right hand. Sir\\nRoger, planting himself at our his-\\ntorian s elbow, was very attentive to\\neverything he said, particularly to the\\naccount he gave us of the lord who had\\ncut off the King of Morocco s head.\\nAmong several other figures, he was\\nvery well pleased to see the statesman\\nCecil upon his knees j and, concluding\\n79", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthem all to be great men, was con-\\nducted to the figure which represents\\nthat martyr to good housewifery, who\\ndied by the prick of a needle. Upon\\nour interpreter s telling us that she was\\na maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth,\\nthe knight was very inquisitive into her\\nname and family and after having re-\\ngarded her finger for some time, I\\nwonder (says he), that Sir Richard\\nBaker has said nothing of her in his\\nChronicle.\\nWe were then conveyed to the two\\ncoronation chairs, where my old friend,\\nafter having heard that the stone under-\\nneath the most ancient of them, which\\nwas brought from Scotland, was called\\nJacob s Pillow, sat himself down in the\\nchair and, looking like the figure of an\\nold Gothic king, asked our interpreter\\n80", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nwhat authority they had to say that\\nJacob had ever been in Scotland\\nThe fellow, instead of returning him\\nan answer, told him that he hoped his\\nHonour would pay his forfeit. I could\\nobserve Sir Roger a little ruffled upon\\nbeing thus trepanned but our guide\\nnot insisting upon his demand, the\\nknight soon recovered his good hu-\\nmour, and whispered in my ear that\\nif Will. Wimble were with us, and\\nsaw those two chairs, it would go hard\\nbut he would get a tobacco-stopper out\\nof one or tother of them.\\nSir Roger, in the next place, laid his\\nhand upon Edward the Third s sword,\\nand, leaning upon the pummel of it,\\ngave us the whole history of the Black\\nPrince concluding that, in Sir Richard\\nBaker s opinion, Edward the Third was\\n8i", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\none of the greatest princes that ever\\nsat upon the English throne.\\nWe were then shown Edward the\\nConfessor s tomb upon which Sir\\nRoger acquainted us that he was the\\nfirst that touched for the Evil and\\nafterward Henry the Fourth s, upon\\nwhich he shook his head, and told us\\nthere was fine reading of the casualties\\nof that reign.\\nOur conductor then pointed to that\\nmonument where there is the figure of\\none of our English kings without a\\nhead and upon giving us to know\\nthat the head, which was of beaten sil-\\nver, had been stolen away several years\\nsince Some Whig, I ll warrant you,\\n(says Sir Roger) you ought to lock up\\nyour kings better they will carry off\\nthe body, too, if you do not take care.\\n82", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nThe glorious names of Henry the\\nFifth and Queen Elizabeth gave the\\nknight great opportunities of shining,\\nand of doing justice to Sir Richard\\nBaker, who, as our knight observed\\nwith some surprise, had a great many-\\nkings in him, whose monuments he had\\nnot seen in the Abbey.\\nFor my own part, I could not but\\nbe pleased to see the knight show such\\nan honest passion for the glory of his\\ncountry, and such a respectful gratitude\\nto the memory of its princes.\\nI must not omit that the benevo-\\nlence of my good old friend, which\\nflows out toward every one he con-\\nverses with, made him very kind to our\\ninterpreter, whom he looked upon as an\\nextraordinary man for which reason\\nhe shook him by the hand at parting,\\n83", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\ntelling him that he should be very glad\\nto see him at his lodgings in Norfolk-\\nbuildings, and talk over these matters\\nwith him more at leisure.\\n84", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nSIR ROGER AT THE PLAY\\n\\\\yTY friend Sir Roger de Coverley,\\nwhen we last met together at the\\nclub, told me that he had a great mind\\nto see the new tragedy with me, assur-\\ning me at the same time, that he had\\nnot been at a play these twenty years.\\nThe last I saw, said Sir Roger, was the\\nCommittee, which I should not have\\ngone to neither, had not I been told\\nbeforehand that It was a good Church\\nof England comedy. He then pro-\\nceeded to inquire of me who this Dis-\\ntressed Mother was and upon hearing\\n8S", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthat she was Hector s widow, he told\\nme that her husband was a brave man,\\nand that when he was a schoolboy he\\nhad read his life at the end of the dic-\\ntionary. My friend asked me, in the\\nnext place, if there would not be some\\ndanger in coming home late, in case\\nthe Mohocks should be abroad. I\\nassure you (says he), I thought I had\\nfallen into their hands last night for\\nI observed two or three lusty black\\nmen that followed me half-way up\\nFleet Street, and mended their pace\\nbehind me, in proportion as I put on\\nto go away from them. You must\\nknow (continued the knight, with a\\nsmile), I fancied they had a mind to\\nhunt me for I remember an honest\\ngentleman in my neighbourhood, who\\nwas served such a trick in King Charles\\n86", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthe Second s time for which reason he\\nhas not ventured himself in town ever\\nsince. I might have shown them very\\ngood sport, had this been their design\\nfor as I am an old fox-hunter, I should\\nhave turned and dodged, and have\\nplayed them a thousand tricks they had\\nnever seen in their lives before. Sir\\nRoger added that if these gentlemen\\nhad any such intention, they did not\\nsucceed very well in it for I threw\\nthem out (says he) at the end of Nor-\\nfolk Street, where I doubled the corner,\\nand got shelter in my lodgings before\\nthey could imagine what was become\\nof me. However (says the knight),\\nif Captain Sentry will make one with us\\nto-morrow night, and if you will both\\nof you call on me about four o clock,\\nthat we may be at the house before it\\n87", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nis full, I will have my own coach in\\nreadiness to attend you, for John tells\\nme he has got the fore-wheels mended.\\nThe captain, who did not fail to\\nmeet me there at the appointed hour,\\nbid Sir Roger fear nothing, for that he\\nhad put on the same sword which he\\nhad made use of at the battle of Steen-\\nkirk. Sir Roger s servants, and among\\nthe rest my old friend the butler, had,\\nI found, provided themselves with good\\noaken plants, to attend their master\\nupon this occasion. When we had\\nplaced him in his coach, with myself\\nat his left hand, the captain before him,\\nand his butler at the head of his foot-\\nmen in the rear, we convoyed him in\\nsafety to the playhouse where, after\\nhaving marched up the entry in good\\norder, the captain and I went in with\\n88", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nhim, and seated him betwixt us in the\\npit. As soon as the house was full,\\nand the candles lighted, my old friend\\nstood up and looked about him with\\nthat pleasure which a mind seasoned\\nwith humanity naturally feels in itself,\\nat the sight of a multitude of people\\nwho seemed pleased with one another,\\nand partake of the same common enter-\\ntainment. I could not but fancy to\\nmyself, as the old man stood up in the\\nmiddle of the pit, that he made a very\\nproper centre to a tragic audience.\\nUpon the entering of Pyrrhus, the\\nknight told me that he did not be-\\nlieve the King of France himself had\\na better strut. I was, indeed, very\\nattentive to my old friend s remarks,\\nbecause I looked upon them as a piece\\nof natural criticism, and was well\\n89", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\npleased to hear him, at the conclu-\\nsion of almost every scene, telling me\\nthat he could not imagine how the\\nplay would end. One while he ap-\\npeared much concerned about Androm-\\nache and a little while after as much\\nfor Hermione and was extremely\\npuzzled to think what would become\\nof Pyrrhus.\\nWhen Sir Roger saw Andromache s\\nobstinate refusal to her lover s impor-\\ntunities, he whispered me in the ear\\nthat he was sure she would never have\\nhim to which he added, with a more\\nthan ordinary vehemence, you cannot\\nimagine, sir, what it is to have to do\\nwith a widow. Upon Pyrrhus, his\\nthreatening afterward to leave her,\\nthe knight shook his head and muttered\\nto himself. Ay, do, if you can. This\\n90", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Cover ley\\npart dwelt so much upon my friend s\\nimagination that at the close of the\\nthird act, as I was thinking of some-\\nthing else, he whispered in my ear,\\nThese widows, sir, are the most per-\\nverse creatures in the world. But pray\\n(says he), you that are a critic, is this\\nplay according to your dramatic rules,\\nas you call them Should your peo-\\nple in tragedy always talk to be under-\\nstood Why, there is not a single\\nsentence in this play that I do not\\nknow the meaning of.\\nThe fourth act very luckily began\\nbefore I had time to give the old\\ngentleman an answer Well (says\\nthe knight, sitting down with great\\nsatisfaction), I suppose we are now\\nto see Hector s ghost. He then re-\\nnewed his attention, and, from time\\n91", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nto time, fell a-p raising the widow. He\\nmade, indeed, a little mistake as to one\\nof her pages, whom, at his first enter-\\ning, he took for Astyanax but he\\nquickly set himself right in that par-\\nticular, though, at the same time, he\\nowned he should have been very glad\\nto have seen the little boy, who,\\nsays he, must needs be a very fine\\nchild, by the account that is given of\\nhim. Upon Hermione s going off\\nwith a menace to Pyrrhus, the audi-\\nence gave a loud clap to which Sir\\nRoger added, On my word, a notable\\nyoung baggage\\nAs there was a very remarkable\\nsilence and stillness in the audience\\nduring the whole action, it was natural\\nfor them to take the opportunity of the\\nintervals between the acts to express\\n92", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley v#\\ntheir opinion of the players, and of\\ntheir respective parts. Sir Roger, hear-\\ning a cluster of them praise Orestes,\\nstruck in with them, and told them\\nthat he thought his friend Pylades\\nwas a very sensible man as they\\nwere afterward applauding Pyrrhus,\\nSir Roger put in, a second time,\\nAnd let me tell you (says he),\\nthough he speaks but little, I like the\\nold fellow in whiskers as well as any\\nof them. Captain Sentry, seeing two\\nor three wags, who sat near us, lean\\nwith an attentive ear toward Sir Roger,\\nand fearing lest they should smoke the\\nknight, plucked him by the elbow, and\\nwhispered something in his ear that\\nlasted till the opening of the fifth act.\\nThe knight was wonderfully attentive\\nto the account which Orestes gives of\\n93", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nPyrrhus, his death, and at the conclu-\\nsion of it told me it was such a bloody\\npiece of work, that he was glad it was\\nnot done upon the stage. Seeing, after-\\nward, Orestes in his raving fit, he grew\\nmore than ordinary serious, and took\\noccasion to moralise (in his way) upon\\nan evil conscience, adding that Ores-\\ntes, in his madness, looked as if he saw\\nsomething.\\nAs we were the first that came into\\nthe house, so we were the last that\\nwent out of it being resolved to have\\na clear passage for our old friend, whom\\nwe did not care to venture among the\\njustling of the crowd. Sir Roger went\\nout fully satisfied with his entertain-\\nment, and we guarded him to his\\nlodgings in the same manner that we\\nbrought him to the playhouse j being\\n94", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nhighly pleased, for my own part, not\\nonly with the performance of the ex-\\ncellent piece which had been presented,\\nbut with the satisfaction which it had\\ngiven to the good old man.\\n95", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nCHAPTER X.\\nSIR ROGER AT VAUXHALL\\nS I was sitting in my chamber, and\\nthinking on a subject for my next\\nSpectator, I heard two or three irregu-\\nlar bounces at my landlady s door, and\\nupon the opening of it, a loud cheerful\\nvoice inquiring whether the philoso-\\npher was at home. The child who\\nwent to the door answered, very in-\\nnocently, that he did not lodge there.\\nI immediately recollected that it was\\nmy good friend Sir Roger s voice and\\nthat I had promised to go with him on\\nthe water to Spring Garden, in case it\\n96", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nproved a good evening. The knight\\nput me in mind of my promise from\\nthe staircase, but told me that if I\\nwas speculating, he would stay below\\ntill I had done. Upon my coming\\ndown, I found all the children of the\\nfamily got about my old friend, and\\nmy landlady herself, who is a notable\\nprating gossip, engaged in a conference\\nwith him being mightily pleased with\\nhis stroking her little boy upon the\\nhead, and bidding him be a good child,\\nand mind his book.\\nWe were no sooner come to the\\nTemple stairs, but we were surrounded\\nwith a crowd of watermen, offering\\ntheir respective services. Sir Roger,\\nafter having looked about him very\\nattentively, spied one with a wooden\\nleg, and immediately gave him orders\\n97", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nto get his boat ready. As we were\\nwalking toward it, You must know\\n(says Sir Roger), I never make use of\\nanybody to row me that has not either\\nlost a leg or an arm. I would rather\\nbate him a few strokes of his oar, than\\nnot employ an honest man that has\\nbeen wounded in the Queen s service.\\nIf I was a lord or a bishop, and kept a\\nbarge, I would not put a fellow in my\\nlivery that had not a wooden leg.\\nMy old friend, after having seated\\nhimself, and trimmed the boat with\\nhis coachman, who, being a very sober\\nman, always serves for ballast on these\\noccasions, we made the best of our\\nway for Fox-hall. Sir Roger obliged\\nthe waterman to give us the history\\nof his right leg, and hearing that he\\nhad left it at La Hogue, with many", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nparticulars which passed in that glori-\\nous action, the knight in the triumph\\nof his heart made several reflections\\non the greatness of the British nation\\nas, that one Englishman could beat\\nthree Frenchmen that we could never\\nbe in danger of popery so long as we\\ntook care of our fleet that the Thames\\nwas the noblest river in Europe that\\nLondon bridge was a greater piece of\\nwork than any other of the seven\\nwonders of the world with many\\nother honest prejudices which natur-\\nally cleave to the heart of a true Eng-\\nlishman.\\nAfter some short pause, the old\\nknight, turning about his head twice\\nor thrice to take a survey of this great\\nmetropolis, bid me observe how thick\\nthe city was set with churches, and\\nLofL. 99", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nthat there was scarce a single steeple\\non this side Temple Bar. A most\\nheathenish sight (says Sir Roger)\\nThere is no religion at this end of the\\ntown. The fifty new churches will\\nvery much mend the prospect but\\nchurch work is slow, church work is\\nslow\\nI do not remember I have anywhere\\nmentioned in Sir Roger s character his\\ncustom of saluting everybody that\\npasses by him with a good morrow or\\na good night. This the old man does\\nout of the overflowings of humanity,\\nthough at the same time it renders him\\nso popular among all his country neigh-\\nbours, that it is thought to have gone\\na good way in making him once or\\ntwice knight of the shire. He cannot\\nforbear this exercise of benevolence", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\neven in town, when he meets with any\\none in his morning or evening walk.\\nIt broke from him to several boats\\nthat passed by us upon the water j but\\nto the knight s great surprise, as he\\ngave the good night to two or three\\nyoung fellows a little before our land-\\ning, one of them, instead of returning\\nthe civility, asked us what queer old\\nput we had in the boat, and whether\\nhe was not ashamed to go a-wenching\\nat his years with a great deal of\\nthe like Thames ribaldry. Sir Roger\\nseemed a little shocked at first, but at\\nlength assuming a face of magistracy,\\ntold us, that if he were a Middlesex\\njustice, he would make such vagrants\\nknow that her Majesty s subjects were\\nno more to be abused by water than by\\nland.", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nWe were now arrived at Spring\\nGarden, which is exquisitely pleasant\\nat this time of year. When I con-\\nsidered the fragrancy of the walks and\\nbowers, with the choirs of birds that\\nsung upon the trees, and the loose tribe\\nof people that walked under their\\nshades, I could not but look upon the\\nplace as a kind of Mahometan paradise.\\nSir Roger told me it put him in mind\\nof a little coppice by his house in the\\ncountry, which his chaplain used to call\\nan aviary of nightingales. You must\\nunderstand (says the knight), there is\\nnothing in the world that pleases a\\nman in love so much as your nightin-\\ngale. Ah, Mr. Spectator the many\\nmoonlight nights that I have walked\\nby myself, and thought on the widow\\nby the music of the nightingale He", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nhere fetched a deep sigh, and was fall-\\ning into a fit of musing, when a mask,\\nwho came behind him, gave him a\\ngentle tap upon the shoulder, and\\nasked him if he would drink a bottle\\nof mead with her But the knight,\\nbeing startled at so unexpected a famil-\\niarity, and displeased to be interrupted\\nin his thoughts of the widow, told her,\\nShe was a wanton baggage, and bid\\nher go about her business.\\nWe concluded our walk with a glass\\nof Burton ale, and a slice of hung beef.\\nWhen we had done eating ourselves,\\nthe knight called a waiter to him, and\\nbid him carry the remainder to a water-\\nman that had but one leg. I per-\\nceived the fellow stared upon him at\\nthe oddness of the message, and was\\ngoing to be saucy, upon which I rati-\\n103", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "Sir Roger de Coverley\\nfied the knight s commands with a\\nperemptory look.\\nAs we were going out of the garden,\\nmy old friend, thinking himself obliged,\\nas a member of the Quorum, to ani-\\nmadvert upon the morals of the place,\\ntold the mistress of the house, who sat\\nat the bar, that he should be a better\\ncustomer to her garden, if there were\\nmore nightingales and fewer strum-\\npets.\\nTHE END.\\n104", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "SFP 6 1900", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2391", "width": "1517", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 157 167 9\\n^in;\\n.v\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Mm\\nmm", "height": "2574", "width": "1726", "jp2-path": "sirrogerdecover102addi_0122.jp2"}}