CHAP. IV.
How he ran from his Mother, and what courses he steered in one whole years Ramble.
IT was in July when I undertook this my Knight-errantry; the fairness of the Season much favoured my Enterprise: thinking I should always enjoy such weather, and never be pincht with ne∣cessity, I went on very couragiously. The first dinner I made was on Blackberries and Nuts, esteemed by me very delicious fare at first, which delighted me so much the more, having not my liberty controul'd. When night approached it seemed very uncouth and strange, finding, instead of a Feather-bed, no other thing to lie on but a Haycock, and no other coverlid but the Canopy of Heaven. But considering with my self that I had no task to con over night, nor fear of over sleeping my self next morning, and so be fetcht to School by a Guard of my fellow Schollars with a Lanthorn and Candle, though the Sun ap∣pear'd at that time in his full lustre; I laid my self down and slept profoundly, not without some af∣frighting dreams: The last was of the Cat of Nine Tails, which my Master laid so home me thought