Volume 2

The spiritual Quixote: or, the summer's ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A comic romance / [Anon].

  • Richard Graves
Date:
1774
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The spiritual Quixote: or, the summer's ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose. A comic romance / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~ nN Woodville fent a trufty domeftic with us, to meet the coach at——-, where we lay the firft night at an inn which the fa- mily always made ufe of. I] committed my charge to the care of the miftrefs of the houfe, who, being a widow woman, let Charlotte fleep in her own chamber, and in the morning faw her fafe in the ftage-coach. I need not trouble you with the particulars of our journey: but fuppofe us arrived in town about the dutk of the evening, and fet down at The Bolt and Tun in Fleet-ftreet. Whoever has feen that ancient sloomy hotel (which, however, may have been a magnificent palace before the Refor- mation) wil! qafily imagine with what horror it muft ftrike a young perfon, who was never before from her father’s houfe in the country, We were taken, by a tall maf- culine creature in petticoats, into a dark “© back-