put a ſtopp to it ſhortly, I worrant ye: I beleave I ſholl do vary well, if you wull but ſend me t'other crowne; for I have ſpent all my mony at my freſh treat, (as they caul itt,) which is an abomminabel Ecſtortion, but I coud not help itt, when I cum intoo the cuntry, I'le tell yow all how it is. So no more att this preſent; but my ſarvice to our parſon, and my love to brother Nick and ſiſter Kate; and ſo I reſt
Your ever dutiful and obedent Son,Benjamin Numps.
When he had done reading, the Sculls look'd very gravely upon one another for ſome time, till at length Dr. Fauſtus, late of New College, got up and ſpoke to them in the following manner.
Gentlemen,
The words of this letter are ſo very plain and intelligible in themſelves, that I wiſh there is no latent and myſterious meaning in them. How do we know what he means by the Cheese, which he thanks his mother for? or how do we know that he means nothing elſe by it, but a Cheese? Then, he deſires his mother to ſend him t'other Crown; now what, I conjure you all to tell me, can he mean by that other Crown but the Elector of Hanover; eſpecially ſince he tells us on the outſide of his letter, that the Queen is dead? Theſe Rebels and Roundheads are very ſly in every thing they do: they know we have a ſtrict eye over
