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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84910	The French rogue: or, The life of Monsieur Ragoue de Versailles Containing his parentage; monstrous birth, early rogueries, pleasant and witty pranks, not only in France, but in divers other countries. With the strange and wonderful plots, projects, policies and stratagems, by which he contrived, managed, and brought about his villanies, and escaped many dangers; and more particularly the prank he played with the French king, &c. All very comical and delightful. Done from the original by J.S.		1694 (1694)	Wing F2196C; ESTC R226224	68,321	202

Fortune's Tennis-Ball I thought My Way lay best where most was to be got CHAP. XV. How going to a Gentleman's House he undertook to lye in a Room where a dreadful Ghost was fancy'd to appear and how personating it himself he frighted a whole Table of Gamesters away and swept up the Stakes they left behind for haste with which he replenished his Empty Pockets REsolved if I could help it to lye no more in a Roguish Inn when Day was near spent I made up to a very fine ancient Building where at some Distance my Ears were saluted with Musick and merry Songs which made me hope for good Entertainmente it being in those Countries a sign of good House-keeping I therefore set a good Face on it and went to the door demanding if the Master of the House was within he thereupon came as being within hearing and asked What I would have I told him being a Stranger in those Parts and having been ill used upon taking up Quarters in Publick Houses I would intreat him to spare me a Lodging that Night He answered me mighty civilly but said He feared he could not for it being the Anniversary of his Wedding-Day he had divers Friends there and knew not but most of 'em might stay all night I continued to press my Suit and told him some of my Misfortunes Seeing me a likely Young Man he told me he had one Room he knew no body would lye in which he could well spare but if I accepted that I might perhaps fall into greater Misfortune than I had yet done for that it was nightly haunted with a Spirit ever since his Grandfather's Barber for Love of a Coy Chamber-Maid had cut his Throat in it and that the Spirit appeared at usual times with Razor in one hand a Bason and Light in the other crying in hoarse Tone Will you be shaved and some that we have ventured unknown to them to lye there have been for refusing to suffer him to shave them thrown violently out of their Beds and bruised at a strange rate I heard very attentively this Relation but having always a strong Fancy that these Reports of Apparitions were only Delusions and the Fancies of Whimsical Brains or Men in Drink I with much obliging Language told him That if he pleased I would accept of his Proffer notwithstanding the dreadful Report he had made and knew not but by an Art I had learned I might lay this poor disturbed Ghost to rest that he should be confined to the Lower Shades and wander about the World no more At this he appeared altogether yielding inviting me in and caused me after we had discoursed a little whence I came and whither I was going to enter the Parlour and make merry with the rest of the Company and at Supper-time told them for what I came thither and what I had undertaken They all wondered that I durst venture upon it some disswaded me from it as a thing too full of Presumption and Danger some again laughed in their Sleeves to think what sport they should have in the Relation of this Adventure next morning but they had little Cause as it fell out though they did so Supper ended they adjourned into a large old fashioned Hall and fell to Cards and Dice Seeing them set in and the Stakes thrown down briskly a merry Crotchet came in my Head and retiring desired one of the Servants for that I was weary with long Travel to show me up to my appointed Lodging the Fellow tho' a Lusty Lubber gave me a Candle but durst venture no further than the Stair-foot and there wishing me a Good-night stood listening a little and then departed I shut the Door and expected the frightfull Gobling but he gave me none of his Company wherefore least he should be missing in the Family I resolved to personate him Thus concluding I rubbed my Face over with the White of the Wall to make me represent a Ghost the more exactly then with one of my Garters tying a Sheet with a Knot to place just upon my Head like a Shroud I stript me to my Shirt and Drawers and laid my Cloaths decently on the Bed the sooner to whip in after this Exploit a Razor I had in my Pocket and to make it look more terrible I cut my Finger and bloodied it over but being at a Loss for a Bason I at last concluded the Pewter Chamber-pot by the glimmering of Candles and in a Fright might be taken for it as well In this Posture I waited till I heard by their noise and ratling of Money the Wine was got into their Crowns then softly descending in the same Posture as the other had been describ'd to appear I found them so busie at their Game that I was in a manner at their backs when one of the Servants that attended looking up and spying me started ten Paces back crying out Oh! the Ghost the Ghost and so run out stumbling headlong over the Threshold I immediately extending my Piss-pot and bloody Razor seconded him with crying out in a hoarse and dreadfull Tone Will you be shaved upon this they all started up without any regard to their Money that lay on the Table and tumbled over each other for hast as if they had bid the Devil take the hindmost and happy was he that could tread over another to get before him I still pursued them in the same dreadfull Tone till I had quite cleared the Hall and adjacent Rooms of every Soul of them some got into the Cellars others into the Stables and Out-houses sculking and hiding themselves Fear charming many of them in those Places as in inchanted Castles till Day-light appeared and banished the Bugbears of nightly Fancy I upon this returned to the Deserted Spoil and pretty well lined my Pockets taking this as a Providence to make up in some part my Loss at the Inn and so returned to Bed as softly as could be and putting out my Candle I soon perceived how this Errour came there was an old doated Post in the Room that looked whitish or shining in the Dark and the Wind blowing then a Penthouse of thin Boards just over the Window swaying too and fro made such a kind of a noise as seemed to imitate Shave and no doubt the Drunkenness or Fear of such as lay there had improved the dreadful Consequences of it by leaping out of Bed and hitting themselves against the Bed-Posts or tumbling on the Floar The next morning they were not so much vext that the supposed Goblin had carried away their Money as for an ill Report if I should be murthered for they concluded no less seeing the Razor all bloody but when they ventured to call to me at the Stair-foot and I assured them I was not yet dead though in a faint Voice for I had cut off some of my Hair and one side of my Beard to make it more passable they rejoyced and desired me to leave my Purgatory I soon descended