14 The ADVENTURES oF
them, began, all Four, to talk of indifferent fubjc£l$# The landlord faid he was an officer of the holy bio» therhood ; and his wife was a fat, merry dame, who feemed to_ underhand very well how to vend her commodities.
Our converfaiion was interrupted by the arrival of twelve or fifteen cavalicis, fome mounted on mules!, and fome a-horfeback, followed by thirty baggage mnyls loaded with bales. “ Ah ! what a number of princes ! (cried the landlord, at fight of fo many people) where fliall I find lodging for them all ?” In a moment the village was crouded with men and beads. There was luckily, near the inn, a vatl barn, in which the moyls and the ba-a ge were difpofed : the mulct and horfes belonging to the cavaliers, were put in other places ; and as lor the men, they did not concern themfclvcs fo much about finding beds, as in bespeaking ia good fupper. The landioid, his wife, and a young maid fervant belonging to the houfe, were not idle; tlvcy ffaughtered all the poultry in their yard, which joined to fome ragouts made of rabbits and cats, and a plentiful dilh of foup, compofed ot collillow- ers and mutton, furnifiud enteitainment enough for the whole company.
Morale?, and I looked at the cavaliers, who, from time to time, eyed us alfo. At lail, we entered into converfaiion, and told them, that if it was,agreeable, W'e would fup in company. They allured us, that we could not do them a greater plcafure, fo wefat down all together at table. There was one among them whoTecnied to be the chief, and for whom the r ft, th^igh otherwife very familiar, did not tail to fhew fome deference : ’lis true, indeed, he kept the tipper end, talked in an elevated tone of voice, and even contradicted, fomclimes, in,a cavalier mariner, the fcniimcntsof the reft, who, far from replying, in the fame manner to him, feemed to refpett his opinions. The difeourfe falling by accident on And - iufia; and Moraicz taking it ifito his head to praiie
Seville,