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 Beides, they would have dipered, had the Progres of the Evil been any way rapid, or had it been an Alteration wrought from one Day to another. But they brought their Yokes with them into the World; they were in their Infancy too inured by Cutom to the Weight of them to feel it ever after. In hort, they were already accutomed to a thouand Conveniencies which obliged them to tick cloe to each other, it was not o eay for them to dipere as in early Times, when, as no Man tood in need of any one but himelf, every one did what he liked bet without waiting for the Conent of any other.

Pag. 137.

(18.) Marhal de  ued to relate, that in one of his Campaigns the exceive Frauds of an Undertaker for Proviions having made the Army uffer and murmur a great deal, he took him roundly to tak and threatened him with the Gallows. Thee Menaces do not concern me, immediately replied the Knave, and I am glad to have this Opportunity of telling you, that 'tis no uch eay Matter to hang a Man who can throw away a hundred thouand Crowns. I don't know how it came to pas, ingenuouly added the Marhal, but o it