, which
he immediately began to practise against the door with such thundering
application, as reached the ears of Pickle and his governor, who coming
out into the passage, and seeing him thus employed, asked if he had
forgot the chamber-pots of Alost, that he ventured to behave in such a
manner as entitled him to a second prescription of the same nature.

The doctor, understanding that there was company at hand, opened the
door in a twinkling, and, springing upon his antagonist like a tiger, a
fierce contention would have ensued, to the infinite satisfaction of
our hero, had not Jolter, to the manifest peril of his own person,
interposed, and partly by force, and partly by exhortations, put a stop
to the engagement before it was fairly begun. After having demonstrated
the indecency of such a vulgar rencontre, betwixt two fellow-citizens
in a foreign land, he begged to know the cause of their dissension,
and offered his good offices towards an accommodation. Peregrine also,
seeing the fray was finished, expressed himself to the same purpose;
and the painter, for obvious reasons, declining an explanation, his
antagonist told the youth what a mortifying interruption he had suffered
by the impertinent intrusion of Pallet, and gave him a detail of the
particulars of his vision, as above recited. The arbiter owned the
provocation was not to be endured; and decreed that the offender should
make some atonement for his transgression. Upon which the painter
observed, that, however he might have been disposed to make
acknowledgments, if the physician had signified his displeasure like
a gentleman, the complainant had now forfeited all claim to any such
concessions, by the vulgar manner in which he had reviled him and his
productions; observing, that, if he (the painter) had been inclined to
retort his slanderous insinuations, the republican's own works would
have afforded ample subject for his ridicule and censure.

After divers disputes and representations, peace was at length
concluded, on condition, that, for the future, the doctor should never
mention Cleopatra, unless he could say something in her praise; and that
Pallet, in consideration of his having been the first aggressor, should
make a sketch of the physician's vision, to be engraved and prefixed to
the next edition of his odes.

CHAPTER LXII.

The Travellers depart for Antwerp, at which place the Painter gives a
loose to his Enthusiasm.

Our adventurer