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PAUL CLIFFORD.

CHAPTER VII.


Many things fall between the cup and the lip!

Your man doth please me
With his conceit.*****Comes Chanon Hugh accoutred as you see—
Disguised!
And thus am I to gull the Constable?
Now have among you for a man at arms!*****High Constable was more, though
He laid Dick Tator by the heels.

Ben Jonson's Tale of a Tub.


Meanwhile, Clifford strode rapidly through the streets which surrounded the Judge's house, and, turning to an obscurer quartier of the town, entered a gloomy lane or alley. Here he was abruptly accosted by a man wrapped in a shaggy