164

CHAPTER THE SIXTH.

OF PARIS (BY THE WAY OF THE PRISON AT VIENNA) AND OF
MY COMING BACK FOR A SEASON TO MY OWN COUNTRY,
WHERE MY MASTER, THE CHAPLAIN, AND I PART COMPANY 187

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH.

OF CERTAIN TICKLISH UPS AND DOWNS IN MY LIFE: AMONGST
OTHERS OF MY BEING PRESSED FOR SERVICE IN THE FLEET 206

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH.

JOHN DANGEROUS IS IN THE SERVICE OF KING GEORGE 241

CHAPTER THE NINTH.

REBELLION IS MADE AN END OF, AND AFTER SOME FURTHER
SERVICE WITH HIS MAJESTY I GO INTO BUSINESS ON MY
OWN ACCOUNT 283

THE STRANGE ADVENTURES

OF

CAPTAIN DANGEROUS.

=A Narrative in Old fashioned English.=

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

OF SUNDRY MY ADVENTURES FROM THE TIME OF MY GOING
ABROAD UNTIL MY COMING TO MAN'S ESTATE (WHICH WAS
ALL THE ESTATE I HAD).

A STRANGE Nursing-mother--rather a Stepmother of the Stoniest sort--was
this Sir Basil Hopwood, Knight and Alderman of London, that contracted
with the Government to take us Transports abroad. Sure there never was a
man, on this side the land of Horseleeches, that was so Hungry after
money. Yet was his avarice not of the kind practised by old Audley, the
money-scrivener of the Commonwealth's time; or Hopkins, the wretch that
saved candles' ends and yet had a thousand wax-lights blazing at his
Funeral; or Guy the Bookseller, that founded the Hospital in Southwark;
or even old John Elwes, Esquire, the admired Miser of these latter days.
Sir Basil Hopwood was the rather of the same complexion of Entrails with
that Signor Volpone whom we have all seen--at least such of us as be old
Boys--in Ben Jonson's play of the _Fox_. He Money-grubbed, and
Money-clutched, and Money-wrung, ay, and in a manner Money-stole, that
he might live largely, and ruffle it among his brother Cits in
surpassing state and splendour. He had been Lord Mayor; and on his
Show-day the Equipments of chivalry had been more Sumptuous, the Banners
more varied, the Entertainment at Saddlers' Hall,--where the Lord Mayor
was wont to hold his Feast before the present Mansion House was built,
the ancient Guildhall in King Street being then but in an ill condition
for banquet,--Hopwood's Entertainment, I say, had been more plentifully
provided with Marrowbones, Custards, Ruffs and Reeves, Baked Cygnets,
Malmsey, Canary, and