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DALLAM'S TRAVELS.
because nothinge will thar take salte. My fellow, Need
Hale, would nether eate nor drinke anythinge but water,
yeat I did eate one egge, bread and chese, and I dranke
tow boules of wyne. Whylste we satt there, the Jentel-
wemen came in, and thre of them came verrie neare
us, and louked earnestly upon us. I offered one of them
the cup to drinke, but she would not. Than I offered to
give him that tended upon us my halfe Dollor, but he
would not take any monye. These wemen standing all to
gether before us, I thoughte they had bene Dwellercs
there, because no mony would be taken. I presented my
other knyfe, of 2s. price, unto the ould Jentlewoman, the
which she was unwilling to take, but at laste she tooke it,
and than they all flocked together, and, as it semed to me,
they wondered muche at it. When thei had well louked
upon it, they came altogether towardes me and bowed
there bodies, to show ther thankfulnes. So Ned Hale and
I Touke our leves and wente awaye verrie merrily ; but
when we came to the place wheare we lefte our faintc-
harted frend Myghell Watson, who all this whyle has
layen in a bushe, when we had tould him the wonderes
that we had sene, and of our kinde entertainmente, he
would not beleve us, for he was a shamed, and desiered us
to make haste to the towne that he myghte git som vittals ;
but we mad the less haste for that, and wente to se another
monestarie. Near unto the place upon this mountaine
growed many sweete floweres, in stead of heathe, time, and
other good earbes, and fine springes of watcrc. Comingc
to the towne of Zante, we Inquiered out the house wheare
our marchants and other passingeres weare, which was at
the sine of the Whyte Horse ; but Myghell Watson, for
shame, would not go in with us. When our martchantes
saw us, they began to be verrie angrie, sayinge that they
had soughte alaboute, and thoughte that we had bene
drowned, or com to som evell fortune ; but I bid them
DALLAM'S TRAVELS.
because nothinge will thar take salte. My fellow, Need
Hale, would nether eate nor drinke anythinge but water,
yeat I did eate one egge, bread and chese, and I dranke
tow boules of wyne. Whylste we satt there, the Jentel-
wemen came in, and thre of them came verrie neare
us, and louked earnestly upon us. I offered one of them
the cup to drinke, but she would not. Than I offered to
give him that tended upon us my halfe Dollor, but he
would not take any monye. These wemen standing all to
gether before us, I thoughte they had bene Dwellercs
there, because no mony would be taken. I presented my
other knyfe, of 2s. price, unto the ould Jentlewoman, the
which she was unwilling to take, but at laste she tooke it,
and than they all flocked together, and, as it semed to me,
they wondered muche at it. When thei had well louked
upon it, they came altogether towardes me and bowed
there bodies, to show ther thankfulnes. So Ned Hale and
I Touke our leves and wente awaye verrie merrily ; but
when we came to the place wheare we lefte our faintc-
harted frend Myghell Watson, who all this whyle has
layen in a bushe, when we had tould him the wonderes
that we had sene, and of our kinde entertainmente, he
would not beleve us, for he was a shamed, and desiered us
to make haste to the towne that he myghte git som vittals ;
but we mad the less haste for that, and wente to se another
monestarie. Near unto the place upon this mountaine
growed many sweete floweres, in stead of heathe, time, and
other good earbes, and fine springes of watcrc. Comingc
to the towne of Zante, we Inquiered out the house wheare
our marchants and other passingeres weare, which was at
the sine of the Whyte Horse ; but Myghell Watson, for
shame, would not go in with us. When our martchantes
saw us, they began to be verrie angrie, sayinge that they
had soughte alaboute, and thoughte that we had bene
drowned, or com to som evell fortune ; but I bid them