get a penny loaf, but he had brought me two halfpenny loaves.

This suited me better; wherefore returning to my place again, I sat
down and eat up one of my loaves, reserving the other for the next
day.

This was to me both dinner and supper; and so well satisfied I was
with it that I could willingly then have gone to bed, if I had had
one to go to; but that was not to be expected there, nor had any one
any bedding brought in that night.

Some of the company had been so considerate as to send for a pound
of candles, that we might not sit all night in the dark, and having
lighted divers of them, and placed them in several parts of that
large room, we kept walking to keep us warm.

After I had warmed myself pretty thoroughly and the evening was
pretty far spent, I bethought myself of a lodging; and cast mine eye
on the table which stood in the bay window, the frame whereof
looked, I thought, somewhat like a bedstead. Wherefore, willing to
make sure of that, I gathered up a good armful of the rushes
wherewith the floor was covered, and spreading them under the table,
crept in upon them in my clothes, and keeping on my hat, laid my
head upon one end of the table's frame, instead of a bolster.

My example was followed by the rest, who, gathering up rushes as I
had done, made themselves beds in other parts of the room, and so to
rest we went.

I having a quiet easy mind, was soon asleep, and slept till about