Dialogues
_Painter._ Sir, now I possess you, I’m too glad-hearted to chide your lagging: yet, to say the truth, I expected you this hour agone; for methought your sprightful anglers were apt to prevent the sun’s rising on a delicate May morning.
_Painter._ Sir, now I possess you, I’m too glad-hearted to chide your lagging: yet, to say the truth, I expected you this hour agone; for methought your sprightful anglers were...
4. CHAPTER II._Host._ Sir! we shall do our utmost to give you satisfaction: and for beds, I may say there are not better in the Peak, with ‘sheets laid up in lavender.’ What, ho! boy, take th...
5. CHAPTER III._Angler._ Aye, Sir, I have been wakeful this hour and past; and because I heard you were a-bed, I sauntered out awhile, that I might have the enjoyment of the fresh morning.
6. CHAPTER IV._Angler._ Very true; and I have the authority of learned Sir William Temple to declare, that health and long life are to be found on the Peak of Derbyshire, and the heaths of St...
7. CHAPTER V.Well, brother, now we are come over the river into Derbyshire, and are arrived under Wolfscote Hill, tell me what you thought of our honest host at Alstonfields, and his charges.