ping out his Head, called the Coachman down from his Box, and, upon his presenting himself at the Window, asked him if he smoked; as I was confidering what this would end in, he bid him ftop by the way at any good Tobacconist's, and take in a Roll of their beft Virginia. Nothing material happened in the remaining Part of our Journey, till we were fet down at the Weft-end of the Abbey.

AS we went up the Body of the Church, the Knight pointed at the Trophies upon one of the new Monuments, and cryed out, A brave Man I warrant him! Paffing afterwards by Sir CloudЛly Shovel, he flung his hand that way, and cryed, Sir Cloudfly Shovel! a very gallant Man! As we ftood before Busby's Tomb, the Knight uttered himfelf again after the fame Manner, Dr. Busby, a great Man! he whipped my Grandfather; a very great Man! I fhould have gone to him myself, if I had not been a Blockhead; a very great Man!

WE were immediately conducted into the little Chapel on the right hand. Sir ROGER, planting himself at our Hiftorian's Elbow, was very attentive to every thing he said, particularly to the Account he gave us of the Lord who had cut off the King of Morocco's Head. Among feveral other Figures, he was very well pleased to see the Statef

man Cecil upon his Knees; and concluding them all to be great Men, was conducted to the Figure which represents that Martyr to good Housewifry, who died by the prick of a Needle. Upon our Interpreter's telling us, that she was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth, the Knight was very inquifitive into her Name and Family; and after having regarded her Finger for fome time, I wonder, says he, that Sir Richard Baker has faid nothing of her in his Chronicle.

We were then conveyed to the two Coronation Chairs, where my old Friend, after having heard that the Stone underneath the most ancient of them, which was brought from Scotland, was called Jacob's Pillar, fat himself down in the Chair; and looking like the Figure of an old Gothick King, asked our Interpreter, what Authority they had to fay, that Jacob had ever been in Scotland? The Fellow, instead of returning him an Answer, told him, that he hoped his Honour would pay his Forfeit. I could obferve Sir ROGER a little ruffled upon being thus trepanned; but our Guide not infifting upon his Demand, the Knight foon recovered his goodhumour and whispered in my Ear, that if WILL WIMBLE were with us, and faw those two Chairs, it would go hard but he would get a TobaccoStopper out of one or t'other of them.

SIR ROGER, in the next Place, laid his hand upon Edward the Third's Sword, and leaning upon the Pommel of it, gave us the whole Hiftory of the Black Prince; concluding, that, in Sir Richard Baker's Opinion, Edward the Third was one of the greatest Princes that ever fat upon the English Throne.

WE were then fhewn Edward the Confeffor's Tomb; upon which Sir ROGER acquainted us, that he was the first who touched for the Evil; and afterwards Henry the Fourth's, upon which he shook his Head, and told us there was fine Reading in the Casualties of that Reign.

OUR Conductor then pointed to that Monument where there is the Figure of one of our English Kings without an Head; and upon giving us to know, that the Head, which was of beaten Silver, had been ftolen away feveral Years fince: Some Whig, I'll warrant you, fays Sir ROGER; you ought to lock up your Kings better; they will carry off the Body too, if you don't take care.

THE glorious Names of Henry the Fifth and Queen Elizabeth gave the Knight great Opportunities of fhining and of doing Justice to Sir Richard Baker, who, as our Knight obferved with fome Surprise, had a great many Kings in him, whofe Monuments he had not seen in the Abbey.

FOR my own part, I could not but be pleased to see the Knight show fuch an honest Passion for the Glory of his Country, and fuch a respectful Gratitude to the Memory of its Princes.

I must not omit, that the Benevolence of my good old Friend, which flows out towards every one he converses with, made him very kind to our Interpreter, whom he looked upon as an extraordinary Man; for which reason he shook him by the Hand at parting, telling him, that he should be very glad to see him at his Lodgings in NorfolkBuildings, and talk over these Matters with him more at leisure.

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CHAP. XXIII.

SIR ROGER AT THE PLAYHOUSE.

Refpicere exemplar vitæ morumque jubebo
Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces. HOR.

Y Friend Sir ROGER DE COVERLEY, when we last met together at the Club, told me that he had a great Mind to see the new Tragedy with me, affuring me at the fame time, that he had not been at a Play these twenty years. The laft I faw, faid Sir ROGER, was the Committee, which I fhould not have gone to neither, had not I been told before-hand that it was a good Church-of-England Comedy. He then proceeded to inquire of me who this diftreffed Mother was; and upon hearing that she was Hector's Widow, he told me that her Hufband was a brave Man, and that when he was a School-boy, he had read his Life at the End of the Dictionary. My Friend asked me in the next place, if there would not be some danger in coming home late, in case the Mohocks fhould be abroad. I affure you, fays