CHAP. VIII. How the Author had like to have been received into the Kings Service, and what Means he used to avoid it. He meditates and attempts an Escape, but is often prevented.
HE voluntarily forgoes his Pension. Sum∣moned before the King. Informed that he is to be preferred at Court: But is resolved to refuse it. The answer he makes to the Great Man: Who sends him to an∣other Great Officer: Stayes in that City ex∣pecting his Doom. Goes home, but is sent for again. Having escaped the Court-Ser∣vice, falls to his former course of life: His Pedling forwarded his Escape. The most probable course to take was Northwards. He and his Companion get three days Iourney Northwards; But return back again: Often attempt to fly this way, but still hindred. In those Parts is bad water, but they had an Antidote against it. They still improve in the knowledg of the Way. He meets with his Black Boy in these Parts; Who was to guide him to the Dutch: But dis∣appointed. An extraordinary drought for three or four years together.