Hewer. And by
and by, though we designed to have done before company come, much
company come; very fine ladies; and the manner pretty enough,
only methinks it cannot be clean to go so many bodies together in
the same water. Good conversation among them that are acquainted
here, and stay together. Strange to see how hot the water is;
and in some places though this is the most temperate bath, the
springs so hot as the feet not able to endure. But strange to
see, when women and men here, that live all the season in these
waters, cannot but be parboiled and look like the creatures of
the bath! Carried away wrapped in a sheet, and in a chair home;
and there one after another thus carried (I staying above two
hours in the water) home to bed, sweating for an hour. And by
and by comes musick to play to me, extraordinary good as ever I
heard at London almost any where: 5s. Up to go to Bristoll
about eleven o'clock, and paying my landlord that was our guide
from Chiltren 10s., and the serjeant of the bath 10s., and the
man that carried us in chairs 3s.
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