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The comical Adventures of

there too! for I am ſure you are a
worſe plague than the Devil: But,
d—n your deafhead! I will have your
neck broke, down ſtairs preſently.

With that away ſhe flies, with the
warming-pan in her hand, as faſt as
ſhe could, to inform her miſtreſs and
the two gentlemen, what befel her.—
Madam, ſaid ſhe, yonder is that curſ-
ed dunny man, that has plagued the
whole houſe ſo, has followed me ſlily
up ſtairs in ſuch a room, where I was
going to warm the bed for the two
gentlemen, and I cannot for my life
get him down again.

So away flies her Miſtreſs up ſtairs
full drive, and the two gentlemen,
who had beſpoke the room along with
her, But when they came to the door,
to their great disappointment, they
found it both locked and bolted; and
he had alſo drawn a great cheſt of
drawers againſt it, and placed a great
wainſcot table against the drawers,
and ſeveral chairs upon them: So that
the gentlemen, at this baulk, were in
a terrible paſſion, and ſtrove to burſt