complaints generally as much tire the hearer as they relieve him
who makes them, when I found her launching farther into this
subject I resolved to put an end to my visit, and, taking my
leave with many thanks for the favor she had done me, I returned
to the inn, where I found my fellow-travelers just mounting into
their vehicle. I shook hands with my host and accompanied them
into the coach, which immediately after proceeded on its journey.

[8] These ladies, I believe, by their names, presided over the
leprosy, king's-evil, and scurvy.


CHAPTER IV

Discourses on the road, and a description of the palace of Death.

We were all silent for some minutes, till, being well shaken into
our several seats, I opened my mouth first, and related what had
happened to me after our separation in the city we had just left.

The rest of the company, except the grave female spirit whom our
reader may remember to have refused giving an account of the
distemper which occasioned her dissolution, did the same. It
might be tedious to relate these at large; we shall therefore
only mention a very remarkable inveteracy which the Surfeit
declared to all the other diseases, especially to the Fever, who,
she said, by the roguery of the porters, received acknowledgments
from numberless passengers which were due to herself. "Indeed,"
says she, "those cane-headed fellows" (for so she called them,
alluding, I suppose, to their ticket) "are constantly making such