CHAP. XI.
How Sir Samuel return'd without seeing his Elizabetha, and how he had like to have been taken for a Spye.
SIr Samuel, as we said, being now in the Country, and having proceeded some two days journey, at length lighted into an Ale-house, where he intended to repose that night: but as he sa•e at Supper, the good Woman of the house observing the lily whiteness of his hands, as also the softness of his palms, and seeing him pull out some Gold out of his Pocket, thought to her self that this could not be a Shepherd swain, but certainly some Prince in disguise. Which caused the Woman, the times being then very troublesome, loath to harbour concealed persons contrary to the Act; and looking also for gain upon discovery, to give no∣tice to the next Iustice, of Sir Samuels being there. Whereupon Sir Samuel was sent for, and prudently exa∣mined; for as Sir Samuel himself relates, they took him for the King, though others say, They onely took him for an ordinary Spy; which is most likely: the next thing they did, was to search him; but finding nothing but Love-Let∣ters, and a company of ridiculous Verses about him, the Iustice and his Clerk agréed with him for 10 pound in Gold to dismiss him: And so his money being spent, he was forc'd, without beholding his Mistrisses Angelick Face, to return, with his purse as empty as his head.
