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 nize over little People. This being indeed the Means which they ue to recompene to themelves their extreme Servility and Condecenion to their Superiors; for nothing can be more reaonable, than that Slaves and Flatterers hould exact the ame Taxes on all below them, which they themelves pay to all above them.

Whenever Mrs. Deborah had had Occaion to exert any extraordinary Condecenion to Mrs. Bridget, and by that means had a little owered her natural Dipoition, it was uual with her to walk forth among thee People, in order to refine her Temper, by venting, and, as it were, purging off all ill Humours; on which Account, he was by no means a welcome Viitant; to ay the Truth, he was univerally hated and dreaded by them all.

On her Arrival in this Place, he went immediately to the Habitation of an elderly Matron; to whom, as this Matron had the good Fortune to reemble herelf in the Comelines of her Peron, as well as in her Age, he had generally been more favourable than to any of the ret. To this Woman he imparted what had happened, and the Deign upon which he was come thi-