ng on the road,
and it will be a little too hard to lie just in the open air. Though it
be warm weather, yet it may be wet and damp, and we have a double reason
to take care of our healths at such a time as this; and therefore,'
says he, 'you, brother Tom, that are a sailmaker, might easily make us a
little tent, and I will undertake to set it up every night, and take it
down, and a fig for all the inns in England; if we have a good tent over
our heads we shall do well enough.'

The joiner opposed this, and told them, let them leave that to him; he
would undertake to build them a house every night with his hatchet and
mallet, though he had no other tools, which should be fully to their
satisfaction, and as good as a tent.

The soldier and the joiner disputed that point some time, but at last
the soldier carried it for a tent. The only objection against it was,
that it must be carried with them, and that would increase their baggage
too much, the weather being hot; but the sailmaker had a piece of good
hap fell in which made that easy, for his master whom he worked for,
having a rope-walk as well as sailmaking trade, had a little, poor
horse that he made no use of then; and being willing to assist the three
honest men, he gave them the horse for the carrying their baggage; also
for a small matter of three days' work that his man did for him before
he went, he let him have an old top-gallant sail that was worn out,
but was sufficient and more than enough to make a very good tent. The
soldier showed how to shape it, and they soon by his direction made
their tent, and fitted it with poles or staves for the purpose; and thus
they were furnished for their journey, viz., three men, one tent, one
horse, one gun--for the soldier would not go without arms, for now he
said he was no more a biscuit-baker, but a trooper.

The joiner had a small bag of tools such as might be useful if he should
get any work abroad, as well for their subsistence as his own. What
money they had they brought all into one public stock, and thus they
began their journey. It seems that in the morning when they set out the
wind blew, as the sailor said, by his pocket-compass, at N.W. by W. So
they directed, or rather resolved to direct, their course N.W.

But then a difficulty came in their way, that, as they set out from the
hither end of Wapping, near the Hermitage, and that the plague was now
very violent, especially on the north side of the city, as