D'Artagnan, the King Maker — page 23: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

16 Avoid a New Inn. cabinetmakers ; it ‘had benches around it, carved by sea- men’s knives; on it were miscellaneous articles, silver and pewter drinking vessels, some ecclesiastical in as- pect, others adorned with arms of high families, whose representatives probably never honored the Petrel; Bohemian glasses, curiously delicate in such a rough place; Dutch and Flemish mugs, German cups and pitchers, English jugs. A capacious brazier in the Moresque style held glow- ing charcoal, but the chief culinary shrine was a wood fire on an enormous flat stone, from which, up the nat- ural chimney, floated that column betraying the modest nook of the Petrel. This steady light showed also a terra-cotta image of a saint in Sevillan pottery, highly glazed, probably female, as there had been attached to its base a strip of parchment in Gothic type, appealing to one. It was the stock curative cure of this marshy ground, no doubt, for its lines might be thus translated: “Charm of St. Agnes to dispel the shaking fever. Tremble and go! (First day, shiver and burn!) Tremble and quake! (Second day, shiver and burn!) Tremble and die! (Third day, never return!)” A similarly saintly image, but in rougher work, and dyed instead of being glazed, had these words incised on it, and filled up with burnt rosin to make the old English text apparent: “This be Sint (sic) Dennis, to me dear, For love of drink and, eke, good cheer!” Doubtlessly these objects were precious and ‘had been transferred from the original inn when its removal was decided upon. Over the hearth fire, by an old anchor chain, swung by a pulley hook, as used to hoist a whale up for cutting off the blubber, such an immense iron pot as slave ships Hye in order to cook as much porridge as possible at one eat. CONNIE OOOKS (E(0)