rels, and
make them live better together, such domestic feuds proving afterwards
the occasion of misfortunes to them both. Peg had, indeed, some odd
humours* and comical antipathy, for which John would jeer her. "What
think you of my sister Peg," says he, "that faints at the sound of an
organ, and yet will dance and frisk at the noise of a bagpipe?" "What's
that to you?" quoth Peg. "Everybody's to choose their own music." Then
Peg had taken a fancy not to say her Paternoster, which made people
imagine strange things of her. Of the three brothers that have made such
a clutter in the world--Lord Peter, Martin, and Jack--Jack had of late
been her inclinations. Lord Peter she detested, nor did Martin stand
much better in her good graces; but Jack had found the way to her heart.
I have often admired what charms she discovered in that awkward booby,
till I talked with a person that was acquainted with the intrigue, who
gave me the following account of it.

* Love of Presbytery.

CHAPTER III. Jack's Charms,* or the Method by which he gained Peg's
Heart.

* Character of the Presbyterians.

In the first place, Jack was a very young fellow, by much the youngest
of the three brothers, and people, indeed, wondered how such a young
upstart jackanapes should grow so pert and saucy, and take so much upon
him.

Jack bragged of greater abilities than other men. He was well gifted,
as he pretended: I need not tell you what secret influence that has upon
the ladies.

Jack had a most scandalous tongue, and persuaded Peg that all mankind,
besides himself, were plagued by that scarlet-faced woman, Signiora
Bubonia.* "As for his brother, Lord Peter, the tokens were evident on
him--blotches and scabs. His brother Martin, though he was not quite
so bad, had some nocturnal pains, which his friends pretended were only
scorbutical; but he was sure it proceeded from a worse cause." By such
malicious insinuations he had possessed the lady that he was the only
man in the world of a sound, pure, and untainted constitution, though
there were some that stuck not to say that Signiora Bubonia and Jack
railed at one another only the better to hide an intrigue, and that Jack
had been found with Signiora under his cloak, carrying her home on a
dark stormy night.

* The Woman of Babylon, or the Pope.

Jack was a prodigious ogler; he would ogle you the outside of his eye
inward, and the white upward.

Jack gave himself out for a