d that his rashness might draw us into danger, being in a strange
place; but all was in vain, I but stirred up his fury more; for, turning
his rebukes upon me, he told me, I was myself one of the wicked, and did
rejoice in my heart at the deeds of darkness: no, says he, I will not be
pacified, I will roar aloud to drown their incantations; yea, I will set
out a throat even as the beast that belloweth! so that perceiving the
mob gather about him, I thought it prudence to steal off, and leave him
to the fury of those, whose displeasure he was about to incur.

I had not gone far, but I 'spied two brawney champions at a rubbers
of cuffs, which by the dexterity of their head's, hands, and heels,
I judged could be no other than Englishmen: nor were my sentiments
groundless, for presently I heard the mob cry out, O! rare Jo! O! rare
Jo! and attentively Surveying the combatants, I found it to be the merry
Jo Haynes, fallen out with Plowden the famous Lawyer, about a game
at Nine-holes; and that shout had proclaimed Joe victorious. I was
something scrupulous of renewing my acquaintance, not knowing how the
conqueror, in the midst of his success, might use me for making bold
with his character in my letters from the read; though I felt a secret
desire to discover myself, yet prudence withstood my inclination, 'till
a more convenient season might so that I brushed off to a place where I
saw a concourse of the better sort of people; there I found Millington
the famous Auctioneer, among a crowd of Lawyers, Physicians, Scholars,
Poets, Critics, Booksellers, &c. exercising his old faculty; for which,
gentlemen, he is as particularly famed in these parts, as Herostratus
for firing the famous Temple, or Barthol Swarts, for the invention of
Gunpowder. He is head journey-man to Ptolemy, who keeps a Bookseller's
shop here, and rivals even Jacob Tonson in reputation among the great
wits.

But most of all I was obliged to admire my friend Millington, who, by
his powerful knack of eloquence, to the wonder of the whole company,
sold Cave's Lives of the Fathers to Solomon the Magnificent, and the
Scotch Directory to the Priests of the Sun; nay, he sold-Archbishop
Laud's Life to Hugh Peters, Hob's Leviathan to Pope Boniface, and pop'd
Bunyan's Works upon Bellarmine for a piece of unrevealed Divinity; After
the sale was over, I took an opportunity of making myself known to him,
who caressed me with all the freedom imaginable, asking me, how long