Bellasses
presently; for he knew, if he did not, they should be friends
to-morrow, and then the blow would rest upon him; which he would
prevent, and desired Dryden to let him have his boy to bring him
notice which way Sir H. Bellasses goes. By and by he is informed
that Sir H. Bellasses's coach was coming: so Tom Porter went
down out of the Coffee-house where he stayed for the tidings, and
stopped the coach, and bade Sir H. Bellasses come out. "Why,"
says H. Bellasses, "you will not hurt me coming out-will you?"
"No," says Tom Porter, So out he went, and both drew: and H.
Bellasses having drawn and flung away his scabbard, Tom Porter
asked him whether he was ready? The other answering him he was,
they fell to fight, some of their acquaintance by. They wounded
one another, and H. Bellasses so much that it is feared he will
die: and finding himself severely wounded, he called to Tom
Porter, and kissed him and bade him shift for himself; "for,"
says he, "Tom, thou hast hurt me; but I will make shift to stand
upon my legs till thou mayest withdraw, and the world not take
notice of you, for I would not have thee troubled for what thou
hast done.
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