io8 The ADVENTURES of
ed the archbifhop, he could net help blaming his behaviour. But as I fwore in my rage, that the prelate Ihouid pay for it, and that I would make the whole town merry at his expence, the fage Melchior fa id to rne. “ B ijcvc me, my dear Gil Bias, you had better fupp.refs your refentnient. People of an inferior lank ought always to refpeft perfons of quality, whatever caufe they may have given them to complain. .There aie, I own, fome very mean noblemen, who ’fcaree deferve the lesfl confideration ; but as they .have the power of doing mifehief, they are to be •feared.”
I thanked the old valet de chambre for his good • advice, which I promifed to obferve. “ If you go, (laid he) to Madrid, you fhall vifit Jofeph Navarro, my nephew, who is clerk of the kitchen to Stgnior I.)on Balthazar de Zuniga, and, I dare fay, a young -.man worthy of your friend (hip, frank, brifk, obliging, ■a; id forward to ferve his friends: I anfwered, that I would not fail to wait on this Jofeph Navarro, on •my firft arrival at Madrid, whither I was detei mined to go. I then quitted the archbifhop’s palace, with . an intent never to fet foot in it again. If I had ftill fbeen in pofTeflion of my horfc, 1 fhould have, perhaps, fet out immediately forTcledo ; but I had fold him while 1 was in favour, believing that I fhould have no further occafion for his fervice. I hired a -furnifhed room, refolving to flay a month at Grenada, and then repair to the count de Polan.
As dinner-time approached, I afked of my land* lady, if there was not an eating houfe in the neighbourhood ; and fhe anfwering, that there was an excellent one a few flops from her houfe, where there was very good accommodation, and a great deal of -good company; I made her fhew me the place, and going thither a little after, was direfted into a large hall, which bore fome refemblance to a refedlory. Ten or twelve people fat at a large table, covered with a dirty cioili* coiwcrfing with one