him an Answer, told him, that he hoped his Honour would pay his Forfeit. I could observe Sir ROGER a little ruffled upon being thus trepanned; but our Guide not insisting upon his Demand, the Knight soon recovered his good-humour and whispered in my Ear, that if WILL WIMBLE were with us, and saw those two

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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 History of the Black Prince; concluding, that, in Sir Richard Baker's Opinion,

Edward the Third was one of the greatest Princes that ever sat upon the English Throne.

WE were then shewn Edward the Confessor'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 stolen away several Years since: Some Whig, I'll warrant you, says 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 shining and of doing Justice to Sir Richard Baker, who, as our Knight observed with some Surprise, had a great many Kings in him, whose Monuments he had not seen in the Abbey.

FOR my own part, I could not but be pleased to see the Knight show such an honest Passion for the Glory of his Country, and such 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 Norfolk-Buildings, and talk over these Matters with him more at leisure.

Sir Roger at the Play

"Respicere exemplar vitæ morumque jubebo

Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces."-HOR.

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Y Friend Sir ROGER DE COVERLEY,when we last met together at the Club, told me that hehad a great Mind to see the new Tragedy with me, assuring me at the same time, that he had not been at a Play these twenty years. The last I saw, said Sir ROGER, was the Committee, which I should 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 distressed Mother was; and upon hearing that she was Hector's Widow, he told me that her Husband 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 should be abroad. I assure you, says he, I