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So make yourself easy ; be discreet and prudent ; and a happier turn shall reward these your troubles , than you may at present apprehend . ` Meantime I pity the fatigue you will have , if this come to your hand in the place I have directed : and will write to your father to satisfy him , that nothing but what is honourable shall be offered to you , by Your passionate admirer , -LRB- so I must style myself , -RRB- ' --------------- ' Do n't think hardly of poor Robin : You have so possessed all my servants in your favour , that I find they had rather serve you than me ; and 't is reluctantly the poor fellow undertook this task ; and I was forced to submit to assure him of my honourable intentions to you , which I am fully resolved to make good , if you compel me not to a contrary conduct . ' I but too well apprehended that the letter was only to pacify me for the present ; but as my danger was not so immediate as I had reason to dread , and he had promised to forbear coming to me , and to write to you , my dear parents , to quiet your concern , I was a little more easy than before and I made shift to eat a little bit of boiled chicken they had got for me , and drank a glass of my sack , and made each of them do so too . But after I had so done , I was again a little flustered ; for in came the coachman with the look of a hangman , I thought , and madamed me up strangely ; telling me , he would beg me to get ready to pursue my journey by five in the morning , or else he should be late in . I was quite grieved at this ; for I began not to dislike my company , considering how things stood ; and was in hopes to get a party among them , and so to put myself into any worthy protection in the neighbourhood , rather than go forward . When he withdrew , I began to tamper with the farmer and his wife . But , alas !