(seq. 172)

on seeing us in such garb and condition - This poor man
had as delicate a sense of danger as either Sancho or Partridge
and now gibbets and wheels presented themselves to his fancy
in all their horrors - The Jailor put us in, and having
no further occasion for us went his way - now had we had
a hot supper to sit down to, some good wine, liberty of
speech and comfortable beds to lye down on, and our handcuffs
taken off, it would have been a considerable alleviation -

But I had better proceed to tell what we had, and
it will spare the time of particularizing the many things
we had not - We had for our domicile a place
not ten feet square by actual measurement, the only
light admitted was thro' the grating of the door which
opend into the Court above mentioned, the light and air
were nearly excluded for the bars of this grating were from
three to four inches thick - In one corner of this
snug mansion was fixed a kind of Throne which had
been of use to such miscreants as us for 60 years past,
and in certain points of wind renderd the air truly
Mephytic - opposite the door and nearly adjoining the
throne was a little skuttle 5 or 6 inches wide, thro which
our Victual was thrust to us - It is not necessary to describe
the furniture, as such folk as were destined to be residents
here had no occasion for superfluities - The Jaylor had