ten o’clock
`` Why , look ye , mistress , '' says he , `` I wo n't be out of reason with you , then ; if I carry you to Colchester , it will be worth five shillings for myself and my horse , for I shall hardly come back to-night . '' In short , I hired the honest man and his horse ; but when we came to a town upon the road -LRB- I do not remember the name of it , but it stands upon a river -RRB- , I pretended myself very ill , and I could go no farther that night but if he would stay there with me , because I was a stranger , I would pay him for himself and his horse with all my heart . This I did because I knew the Dutch gentlemen and their servants would be upon the road that day , either in the stagecoaches or riding post , and I did not know but the drunken fellow , or somebody else that might have seen me at Harwich , might see me again , and so I thought that in one day 's stop they would be all gone by . We lay all that night there , and the next morning it was not very early when I set out , so that it was near ten o'clock by the time I got to Colchester . It was no little pleasure that I saw the town where I had so many pleasant days , and I made many inquiries after the good old friends I had once had there , but could make little out ; they were all dead or removed . The young ladies had been all married or gone to London ; the old gentleman and the old lady that had been my early benefactress all dead ; and which troubled me most , the young gentleman my first lover , and afterwards my brother-in-law , was dead ; but two sons , men grown , were left of him , but they too were transplanted to London . I dismissed my old man here , and stayed incognito for three or four days in Colchester , and then took a passage in a waggon , because I would not venture being seen in the Harwich coaches .