ng him between his
teeth for a sharking priest. The priest, however, was not disconcerted,
and continued his attentions, which in a little time produced an effect,
so that, by the time we landed at Naples, our great folks had conceived a
kind of liking for the man, and when they took their leave invited him to
visit them, which he promised to do. We hired a grand house or palace at
Naples; it belonged to a poor kind of prince, who was glad enough to let
it to our governor, and also his servants and carriages; and glad enough
were the poor servants, for they got from us what they never got from the
prince--plenty of meat and money; and glad enough, I make no doubt, were
the horses for the provender we gave them; and I daresay the coaches were
not sorry to be cleaned and furnished up. Well, we went out and came in;
going to see the sights, and returning. Amongst other things we saw was
the burning mountain, and the tomb of a certain sorcerer called Virgilio,
who made witch rhymes, by which he could raise the dead. Plenty of
people came to see us, both English and Italians, and amongst the rest
the priest. He did not come amongst the first, but allowed us to settle
and become a little quiet before he showed himself; and after a day or
two he paid us another visit, then another, till at last his visits were
daily.

'I did not like that Jack Priest; so I kept my eye upon all his motions.
Lord! how that Jack Priest did curry favour with our governor and the two
young ladies; and he curried, and curried, till he had got himself into
favour with the governor, and more especially with the two young ladies,
of whom their father was doatingly fond. At last the ladies took lessons
in Italian of the priest, a language in which he was said to be a grand
proficient, and of which they had hitherto known but very little; and
from that time his influence over them, and consequently over the old
governor, increased, till the tables were turned, and he no longer
curried favour with them, but they with him--yes, as true as my leg
aches, the young ladies curried, and the old governor curried favour with
that same priest; when he was with them, they seemed almost to hang on
his lips, that is, the young ladies; and as for the old governor, he
never contradicted him, and when the fellow was absent, which, by the
bye, was not often, it was, "Father-so-and-so said this," and
"Father-so-and-so said that"; "Father so-and-so thinks we should d