Many more mishaps and punishments happened to the poor wretch, until at last even he could stand it no longer; so he attempted to poison himself, but, by mistake, drank his wife's bottle of sack (vide frontispiece), and consequently got drunk. He was duly cudgelled; but, either this determination of his, frightened his wife, or she saw the folly of going on in the way they were doing, for the tale winds up with, "For now he leads a happy life."
THE
HISTORY
OF
TOM LONG the Carrier
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard
Bow Lane
Although the address "To the Reader" says—
"Of all the Toms that ever yet was nam'd,