And it is not every man that meets with his desserts, or we know where our friends Sir Giles Mompesson and Sir Francis Mitchell would be.

The good cits are content to drink the pure water of the New River, without bestowing a thought on him who has brought it to their doors.

Meantime, the work has well-nigh beggared Sir Hugh Myddleton, and he is likely to obtain little recompense beyond what the consciousness of his own beneficent act will afford him." "But will not the King requite him ?" Jocelyn asked.
"The King _has_ requited him with a title," Dick returned.

"A title, however, which may be purchased at a less price than good Sir Hugh has paid for it, now-a-days.

But it must be owned, to our sovereign's credit, that he did far more than the citizens of London would do; since when they refused to assist Master Myddleton (as he then was) in his most useful work, King James undertook, and bound himself by indenture under the great seal, to pay half the expenses.