adventure he hath not pehaved with so
much complaisance and affability and respect as I might have expected
from him; pecause he hath revealed and tivulged and buplished our
private affairs, without my knowledge and privity and consent; but as
Got is my Safiour, I think he had no evil intention in his pelly; and
though there be certain persons, look you, who, as I am told, take
upon them to laugh at his descriptions of my person, deportment, and
conversation, I do affirm and maintain, and insist with my heart, and
my plood, and my soul, that those persons are no petter than ignorant
asses, and that they know not how to discern and distinguish and define
true ridicule, or, as Aristotle calls it, the to Geloion, no more, look
you, than a herd of mountain goats; for I will make pold to observe--and
I hope this goot company will be of the same opinion--that there is
nothing said of me in that performance which is unworthy of a Christian
and a shentleman."

Our young gentleman and his friends acquiesced in the justness of his
observation. Peregrine particularly assured him that, from reading
the book, he had conceived the utmost regard and veneration for his
character, and that he thought himself extremely fortunate in having
this opportunity of enjoying his conversation. Morgan, not a little
proud of such advances from a person of Peregrine's appearance, returned
the compliment with a profusion of civility, and, in the warmth of
acknowledgment, expressed a desire of seeing him and his company at his
house in Canterbury. "I will not pretend, or presume, kind sir," said
he, "to entertain you according to your merits and deserts; but you
shall be as welcome to my poor cottage, and my wife and family, as the
prince of Wales himself; and it shall go hard if, one way or other, I
do not find ways and means of making you confess that there is some goot
fellowship in an ancient Priton; for though I am no petter than a simple
apothecary, I have as goot plood circulating in my veins as any he in
the county; and I can describe and delineate and demonstrate my pedigree
to the satisfaction of the 'ole 'orld; and, moreofer, by Got's goot
providence and assistance, I can afford to treat my friend with joint of
good mutton and a pottle of excellent wine, and no tradesman can peard
me with a bill."

He was congratulated on his happy situation, and assured that our youth
would visit him on his return from France, provided he should take
Can