'when I languished under want as well as sickness, I had daily the mortification to see and hear the riots and 'excess of my fellow-soldiers, who had happily escaped 'safe from the battle.

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'I was no sooner well than I was ordered into garrison 'at Dover-castle. The officers here fared very indifferently; but the private men much worse. We had great scarcity of provisions, and, what was yet more intolerable, were so closely confined for want of room (four of us being obliged to lie on the same bundle of straw) that many died and most sickened.

Here I had remained about four months, when one 'night we were alarmed with the arrival of the Earl of Boulogne, who had come over privily from France, and ' endeavoured to surprise the castle. The design proved ineffectual; for the garrison making a brisk sally, most ' of his men where tumbled down the precipice, and he ' returned with a very few back to France. In this action, however, I had the misfortune to come off with a broken arm; it was so shattered, that besides a great deal of pain and misery, which I endured in my cure, I was disabled 'for upwards of three months.

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Soon after my recovery I had contracted an amour 'with a young woman, whose parents lived near the 'garrison, and were in much better circumstances than I 'had reason to expect should give their consent to the ' match. However, as she was extremely fond of me (as 'I was indeed distractedly enamoured of her), they were prevailed on to comply with her desires, and the day was 'fixed for our marriage.

'On the evening preceding, while I was exulting with 'the eager expectation of the happiness I was the next day to enjoy, I received orders to march early in the 'morning towards Windsor, where a large army was to 'be formed, at the head of which the king intended to

'march into the West. Any person, who hath ever been ' in love, may easily imagine what I felt in my mind, on ' receiving those orders; and what still heightened my 'torments was, that the commanding officer would not 'permit any one to go out of the garrison that evening; so that I had not even an opportunity of taking leave beloved.

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'The morning came which was to have put me in the possession of my wishes; but alas! the scene was now

changed, and all the hopes which I had raised were now so many ghosts to haunt, and furies to torment me. 'It was now the midst of winter, and very severe 'weather for the season; when we were obliged to make very long and fatiguing marches, in which we suffered all the inconveniences of cold and hunger. The night ' in which I expected to riot in the arms of my beloved 'mistress I was obliged to take up with a lodging on the ground, exposed to the inclemencies of a rigid frost; เ nor could I obtain the least comfort of sleep, which 'shunned me as its enemy. In short, the horrors of that เ night are not to be described, or perhaps imagined. 'They made such an impression on my soul that I was 'forced to be dipped three times in the river Lethe to prevent my remembering it in the characters which 'I afterwards performed in the flesh.'

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Here I interrupted Julian for the first time, and told him no such dipping had happened to me in my voyage from one world to the other: but he satisfied me by saying, That this only happened to those spirits which ' returned into the flesh, in order to prevent that remiเ niscence which Plato mentions, and which would other'wise cause great confusion in the other world.'

He then proceeded as follows: 'We continued a very laborious march to Exeter, which we were ordered to 'besiege. The town soon surrendered, and his majesty

'built a castle there, which he garrisoned with his 'Normans, and unhappily I had the misfortune to be one ' of the number.

'Here we were confined closer than I had been at Dover; for, as the citizens were extremely disaffected, เ we were never suffered to go without the walls of the 'castle; nor indeed could we, unless in large bodies, 'without the utmost danger. We were likewise kept 'to continual duty, nor could any solicitations prevail 'with the commanding officer to give me a month's 'absence to visit my love, from whom I had no oppor'tunity of hearing in all my long absence.

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However, in the spring, the people being more quiet, and another officer of a gentler temper succeeding to the principal command, I obtained leave to go to 'Dover; but alas! what comfort did my long journey 'bring me? I found the parents of my darling in the ' utmost misery at her loss; for she had died, about a 'week before my arrival, of a consumption, which they imputed to her pining at my to her pining at my sudden depar

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'I now fell into the most violent and almost raving fit ' of despair. I cursed myself, the king, and the whole เ world, which no longer seemed to have any delight for I threw myself on the grave of my deceased love, and lay there without any kind of sustenance for two 'whole days. At last hunger, together with the perเ suasions of some people who took pity on me, prevailed 'with me to quit that situation, and refresh myself with 'food. They then persuaded me to return to my post,

and abandon a place where almost every object I saw ' recalled ideas to my mind, which, as they said, I should ' endeavour with my utmost force to expel from it. This 'advice at length succeeded; the rather, as the father ' and mother of my beloved refused to see me, looking

on me as the innocent but certain cause of the death ' of their only child.

'The loss of one we tenderly love, as it is one of the 'most bitter and biting evils which attends human life, 'so it wants the lenitive which palliates and softens เ every other calamity; I mean that great reliever, hope. 'No man can be so totally undone, but that he may still 'cherish expectation: but this deprives us of all such 'comfort, nor can any thing but time alone lessen it. This, however, in most minds, is sure to work a slow 'but effectual remedy; so did it in mine: for, within 'a twelvemonth, I was entirely reconciled to my fortune, and soon after absolutely forgot the object of a passion from which I had promised myself such extreme เ happiness, and in the disappointment of which I had ' experienced such inconceivable misery.

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At the expiration of the month, I returned to my garrison at Exeter: where I was no sooner arrived than I was ordered to march into the north, to oppose a 'force there levied by the Earls of Chester and North'umberland. We came to York, where his Majesty pardoned the heads of the rebels, and very severely punished some who were less guilty. It was particularly my lot to be ordered to seize a poor man, who had 'never been out of his house, and convey him to prison. 'I detested this barbarity, yet was obliged to execute it; nay, though no reward would have bribed me in a private capacity to have acted such a part, yet so much sanctity is there in the commands of a monarch, or general to a soldier, that I performed it without reluctance, nor had the tears of his wife and family any ' prevalence with me.

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'uneasiness; for when the king led us afterwards into 'Northumberland to revenge those people's having joined with Osborne the Dane in his invasion, and orders were given us to commit what ravages we could, I 'was forward in fulfilling them, and among some lesser 'cruelties (I remember it yet with sorrow) I ravished a woman, murdered a little infant playing in her lap, เ and then burnt her house. In short, for I have no pleasure in this part of my relation, I had my share in all the cruelties exercised on those poor wretches; which were so grievous, that for sixty miles together, 'between York and Durham, not a single house, 'church, or any other public or private edifice was 'left standing.

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'We had pretty well devoured the country, when we were ordered to march to the Isle of Ely, to oppose Hereward, a bold and stout soldier, who had under 'him a very large body of rebels, who had the impu'dence to rise against their king and conqueror (I talk 'now in the same style I did then) in defence of their 'liberties, as they called them. These were soon sub'dued; but as I happened (more to my glory than my เ comfort) to be posted in that part through which 'Hereward cut his way, I received a dreadful cut on 'the forehead, a second on the shoulder, and was run 'through the body with a pike.

'I languished a long time with these wounds, which 'made me incapable of attending the king into Scotland. 'However, I was able to go over with him afterwards into Normandy, in his expedition against Philip, who 'had taken the opportunity of the troubles in England, 'to invade that province. Those few Normans who had 'survived their wounds, and had remained in the Isle of Ely, were all of our nation who went, the rest of 'his army being all composed of English. In a skirmish