e that her Husband was a brave Man, and that
when he was a Schoolboy he had read his Life at the end of the
Dictionary. My friend asked me in the next place, if there would not be
some danger in coming home late, in case the _Mohocks_[1] should be
Abroad. I assure you, says he, I thought I had fallen into their Hands
last Night; for I observed two or three lusty black Men that follow'd me
half way up _Fleet-street,_ and mended their pace behind me, in
proportion as I put on to get away from them. You must know, continu'd
the Knight with a Smile, I fancied they had a mind to _hunt_ me; for I
remember an honest Gentleman in my Neighbourhood, who was served such a
trick in King _Charles_ the Second's time; for which reason he has not
ventured himself in Town ever since. I might have shown them very good
Sport, had this been their Design; for as I am an old Fox-hunter, I
should have turned and dodg'd, and have play'd them a thousand tricks
they had never seen in their Lives before. Sir Roger added, that if
these gentlemen had any such Intention, they did not succeed very well
in it: for I threw them out, says he, at the End of _Norfolk street_,
where I doubled the Corner, and got shelter in my Lodgings before they
could imagine what was become of me. However, says the Knight, if
Captain Sentry will make one with us to-morrow night, and if you will
both of you call upon me about four a Clock, that we may be at the House
before it is full, I will have my own Coach in readiness to attend you,
for _John_ tells me he has got the Fore-Wheels mended.

[Footnote 1: London "bucks" who disguised themselves as savages and
roamed the streets at night, committing outrages on persons and
property.]

The Captain, who did not fail to meet me there at the appointed Hour,
bid Sir Roger fear nothing, for that he had put on the same Sword which
he made use of at the Battel of _Steenkirk._ Sir Roger's Servants, and
among the rest my old Friend the Butler, had, I found, provided
themselves with good Oaken Plants, to attend their Master upon this
occasion. When he had placed him in his Coach, with my self at his
Left-Hand, the Captain before him, and his Butler at the Head of his
Footmen in the Rear, we convoy'd him in safety to the Play-house, where,
after having marched up the Entry in good order, the Captain and I went
in with him, and seated him betwixt us in the Pit. As soon as the House
was full, and the Candles lighted, my old Friend stoo