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James MacKay Sketchbook

Inscribed., Inscription: inscribed in black gall ink, t.: (49); u.l.: Chris. "Did; you meet with no other assaults as you came / Faith. "I met with an aged man who asked me; c.: Chris. in Extremeties applies for a job at the registry office; l.l.: who I was and whither bound, I told him / I was a pilgrim. Then siad the old man thou / lookest like an honest fellow will thou be content to dwell / with me for the wages that I shall give thee. / I asked him what was his work and what the / wages he would give, he told me that his work was / many delights and his wages that I should be his heir at / last he told me that his house was maintained with all / the delicacies of the world and that his servants / were of his own beggetting.