ould
horse-whip them without mercy, which was the treatment to all those whom
he found to be counterfeits met with from him, and he had detected great
numbers of them, having been abroad himself. Our travellers were not the
least daunted, Mr. Carew being conscious in himself that he could give a
satisfactory account of Newfoundland, and the other affirming that he had
been at Rome, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, &c. and could give as good
a description of those countries as his lordship himself. Therefore up
they went to the kitchen door, and Mr. Carew broke ice, telling the
deplorable story of their misfortune in his usual lamentable tone. The
housekeeper at first turned a deaf ear to their supplication and
entreaty; but Mr. Carew, at the instigation of his companion, redoubled
his importunity, kneeling on one knee, and making use of all the methods
of exciting charity, of which he was capable; so that at last the
housekeeper gave them the greatest part of a cold shoulder of mutton,
half a fine wheaten loaf, and a shilling, but did it with great haste and
fear, lest his lordship should see her, and be angry. Of the butler they
got a copper of good ale, and then, both expressing their thankfulness,
departed.--Having reached some distance from the house there arose a
dispute who should carry the victuals, both being loath to incumber
themselves with it, as having neither wife nor child near to give it to.
Mr. Carew was for throwing it into the hedge, but the other urged that it
was both a sin and a shame to waste good victuals in that manner, so they
both agreed to go to the Green Man, about a mile from my lord's, and
there exchange it for liquor. At this alehouse they tarried for some
time, and snacked the argot; then, after a parting glass, each went his
way.

The reader cannot but be surprised when we assure him that this mendicant
companion of his was no less a person than my Lord Weymouth himself, who,
being desirous of sounding the tempers and dispositions of the gentlemen
and other inhabitants of the neighbourhood, put himself into a habit so
vastly beneath his birth and fortune, in order to obtain that discovery.
Nor was this the first time that this great nobleman had metamorphosed
himself into the despicable shape and character of a beggar, as several
of that neighbourhood can testify; but, when he went abroad into the
world in this disguise, he took especial care to conceal it even from his
own family, o