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UP The ADVENTURES of i
and Jhjt I w?s well enough to decamp, withotj ;
taking my leave of Jiim ; for, in a moment after^;
he came to me, quite out of breath, and prefented
his bill, in which, under names that were utterlyi
unknown to rrte, although I had been a phyfician,!
he had fpt down all the pretended medicines, with.;
which he had furnilhed me, while I was out of
my fenfes. This bill might b,e juftly faid to have*
been written in the true fpjrit of an apothecaryj
and accordingly we difpufed about the payment c£
it. 1 infilled on. his abating one half of the fum
he demanded : he fwore he would not abate on«j
maravedi. Confidering, however, that he had to
do with a young man, who might give him tha
flip, by quitting Madrid that very day, he chofa
rather to be contetited with what I offered, that isj
three times the value of his drugs, than to ruri
the rilk of lofing the whole, X gave him the
money .with infinite regret, and he retired, full|
revenged for the final! difgrace he had fullered pn
the day of the glyfler.
The phyAsian appeared almoft at the fame time j
for thofe animals are always at the tail of ont
another. I paid him f6r his vifits, which ha<j
been very numerous, and fent him away very wet
fatisfied. But before he would leave me, in ordej
to prove that he had earned his fees, he relate;
all the mortal fymptoms, which he had prevented
'in my diftemper : a talk he performed in ver
learned terms, and with an agreeable air, thought
was altogether above my comprehenfion. When 1
• had difpatched him, I thought I had got rid of al
' the mihillers pf the fates. But I was millaken
a furgeon, whom I had never feen,, entered mj
apartment, and having faluted me very refpe&fullj