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CHAP. III.
Hells Post through London rydes: by a mad crewe, Hees calld into a Tauerne: In which view They drinke and raile: each of them by the Post Sends a strange message to his Fathers Ghost.THe Post therefore, hauing put vp his packet, blowes his horne, & gallops all the way like a Citizen, so soone as euer hee's on horse∣back, downe to Billingsgate, for he meant when the Tide seru'de to angle for Soules, and some o∣ther fresh fish in that goodly fish-pond the Thames, as he passed ouer it, in Grauesend-barge: that was the water-coach he would ride in, there he knewe he should meet with some voluntaries that would venture along with him: In this passage through the Citty, what a number of Lord Mayors, Alder∣mens, and rich Commoners sonnes & heires kept hollowing out at Tauernwindows to our knight, and wafted him to their Gascoigne shores, with their hats only (for they had molten away all their feathers) to haue him strike fayle, and come vp to them: he vaild, and did so: their phantastick salu∣tations being complemented, with much intrea∣tie (because hee stood vppon thornes) hee was ad∣uaunc'd (in regard of his Knighthood) to the vp∣per end of the b••ord: you must take out your wri∣ting