_What a notable revengeful trick he serv’d the Turn-key of
_Ludgate_._
I went on a time to see a Prisoner in _Ludgate_, but thinking to come
out again as easily as I went in, I found my self just as the Picture I
have often seen upon the _Exchange_, wherein is represented a man
plunging himself with much ease into the great end of the Horn, but with
the greatest difficulty can hardly squeeze his Head through the other
end. Hell Gates stand ever open to let all souls in, but none are
suffer’d to go out. Here I waited two hours for the return of the
Turn-key, fretting my self even to death for being detained from my
urgent occasions. At length he came: I told him what an injury he did
me: instead of excusing himself, he returned me very scurvy language,
which provoked my passion so much, that though I said little, yet my
invention was presently at work to be reveng’d. Not long after I got a
poor fellow to be arrested for an inconsiderable debt, advising him to
turn himself instantly over to _Ludgate_. In a short time the poorness
of this mans condition was generally known, and he himself pretending he
was almost starved, got liberty to put in what slender security he could
procure for his true imprisonment, and so had leave to go abroad. In the
mean time I had got a Bond of the Prisoner of fourscore pound for the
payment of forty, and so went privately and enter’d an action of Debt. I
told the Prisoner the next time he went out he should run away, which he
did, neither was there any security to be found; then did I bring my
action against the Keeper, with my _Knights_ of the _Post_, and so
recovered the money.