Part 1 (2/2)
By e have said above, and much more that we could add, of the happiness of these people, and of their peculiar attachment to each other, we may account for what has been matter ofattachment, for the space of above forty years, to this coe offers that have been made to quit their society-But to return to our history
Thus was Mr Carew initiated into the ive place to none, as is evident froin, which they derive froyptians, one of the most ancient and learned people in the world, and that they were persons of , who travelled to coe to ht not have been of this society, will admit of a doubt, as there isis more certain than that he travelled fro in it before he was consulted in irove, of Monkton, near Taunton, hearing of his fame, sent for him to consult in an affair of difficulty
When he cae quantity of money was buried somewhere about her house, and if he would acquaint her with the particular place, she would handsomely reward him
Our hero consulted the secrets of his art upon this occasion, and after long toil and study inforarden lay the treasure she anxiously sought for; but that her planet of good fortune did not reign till such a day and hour, till which tiood lady rewarded hiuineas for his discovery We cannot tell whether at this time our hero was sufficiently initiated in the art, or whether the lady ard we pay to truth obliges us to confess, that the lady dug below the roots of the laurel-tree without finding the hidden treasure
When he was further initiated in the art, he was consulted upon several iacious answers In the meantime, his worthy parents sorrowed for hiet the least tidings of hiers after him in every direction; till, at the expiration of a year and a half, our hero having repeated accounts of the sorrow and trouble his parents were in upon his account, his heart melted with tenderness, and he repaired to his father's house, at Brickley, in Devonshi+re As he was uised, both in habit and countenance, he was not at first known by his parents; but when he discovered hi the power of speech; but the warm tears they bedewed his cheeks with, whilst they iue with ood heart and tender parent will feel this hbourhood, partook of this joy; and there was nothing for so, and other marks of festive joy
Mr Carew's parents did every thing possible to render hoed in some party of pleasure or other, and all his friends strove who should entertain hi to his happiness But the uncommon pleasure that he had enjoyed in the coovernment, the sies of their habitation, the perpetual st theh honour which he has since arrived at; all these made too deep an impression to be effaced by any other ideas; his pleasure therefore grew every day more and more tasteless, and he relished none of those entertainments which his friends daily provided for his after the coood to think of leaving his fond parents again, without reluctance Long did filial piety and his inclinations struggle for the victory; at length the last prevailed, but not till his health had visibly suffered by these inward co leave of any of his friends, he directed his steps towards Brick-house, at Tiverton, where he had at first entered into the co soreat satisfaction of theained one as likely to be so useful ainto the busy part of our hero's life, where we shall find hi all with propriety, dignity, and decorum-We shall, therefore, rather choose to account for so the reader to keep in overnerines, and other states of Barbary, in a perpetual state of hostility with ems or deceits they can over-reach them by, are not only allowed by their laws, but considered as coerines are looked upon as a very honest people by those who are in alliance with theh they plunder the rest of ht that theystate, whenever it was convenient for them, and murder forty or fifty thousand of the huoverneneral, and our hero as a ht, for exercising a few stratagems to over-reach their enemies, especially when it is considered they never, like other states, do any har considerable to their fortunes
Our hero being again adipseys, and having taken the proper oaths of allegiance to the sovereign, was soon after sent out by him on a cruise upon their enemies
Our hero's as now set to work, by what stratagehts was that of equipping hih of a jacket to cover his nakedness, stockings such as nature gave, shoes (or rather the body of shoes, for soles they had none) which had leaks enough to sink a first rate ht more safely swear it had not been washed since Noah's flood, than any electors can that they receive no bribes Being thus attired, our hero changed his ot entirely his family, education, and politeness, and became neither more nor less than an unfortunate shi+pwrecked seas with small, we could wish that all orders of men were strict imitators of our hero; we mean that they would put on the characteristics and qualifications of their employns of it; that the divine, when he puts on his sacred and venerable habit, would clothe hi, charity, temperance, contempt of filthy lucre, and other Godlike qualifications of his office; that the judge, at the tihteousness and equity as an upper garrity of mind rave physician, when he puts on his large perriould put under it the knowledge of the human frans and nature of diseases, with the most approved and experienced forms of cure; that the mechanic, when he puts on his leather or woollen apron, put on diligence, frugality, tes themselves, when the crohich is adorned with pearls and many precious stones, is put on their heads, would put on at the saems of all the precious virtues; that they would remember at times, they were invested with the dalmatica at their coronation, only as an eood life and holy actions; that the rod they received was the rod of virtue and equity, to encourage and make much of the Godly, and to terrify the wicked; to show the way to those that go astray, and to offer the hand to those that fall; to repress the proud, and to lift up the lowly; and the sword they were girt with, was to protect the liberties of their people, to defend and help s and orphans, restore the things which have gone to decay, s that are in good order
As to our hero, he so fully put on the character of a shi+pwrecked seaained a very considerable booty, having likewise ingeniously imitated the passes and certificates that were necessary for him to travel with unmolested
After about a e, in Devonshi+re, met with Coleman, his late school-fellow, one of those who entered with him into the community, as before related, but had, after a year and a half's sojourn, left the that satisfaction aain joined that people-great was the joy, therefore, of these two friends at their ether for soly proceeded to Totness, from thence to the city of Exeter, where they raised a contribution in one day a obtained all he could desire froem, his fruitful invention soon hinted another He now beca in the Isle of Sheppy, in Kent, had the rounds overflowed, and all his cattle drowned His habit was now neat but rustic; his air and behaviour simple and inoffensive; his speech in the Kentish dialect; his countenance dejected; his tale pitiful-wondrous pitiful; a wife and seven helpless infants being partakers of his e seldo raised a considerable booty by these two stratagems, he made the best of his way towards Straton, in Devonshi+re, where was soon to be held a general assereat applause, on account of the successful stratagems he had executed, and he had an honourableseated near the king
Though our hero, by ems, abounded with all the pleasures he could desire, yet he began now to reflect with hirand and noble maxim of life, that we are not born for ourselves only, but indebted to all reat use and service to them, as our capacities and abilities will enable us to be; he, therefore, gave a handsoratuity to a fa rat-catcher to the king,) to be initiated into that, and the still s or cattle
Our hero, by his close application, soon attained so considerable a knowledge in his profession, that he practised with e of the public in general, not confining the good effects of his knowledge to his own co them universally to all sorts of people, wheresoever they anted; for though we have before observed that the mendicants are in a constant state of hostility with all other people, and Mr Careas as alert as any one in laying all eht, as a ed to do theood in his pohen it was not opposite to the interest of that particular community of which he was anever at a loss, he now fored his habit, shi+rt, &c, for only an old blanket; shoes and stockings he laid aside, because they did not suit his present purpose Being thus accoutred, or rather unaccoutred, he was now no h fire and through flamire, that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew, set ratsbane by his porridge,horse over four-inch bridges, to curse his own shadow for a traitor; who eats the swi, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, and the water-newt; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, ss the old rat and ditch dog, drinks the greenpool;
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O do, de, do, de, do, de; bless thee fro; do poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes; there could I have hih the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind; To to poor Tom?-In this character, and with such like expressions, our hero entered the house both of great and s allto eat coals of fire, running against the wall, and tearing to pieces those gariven him to cover his nakedness; by which means he raised very considerable contributions
But these different habits and characters were still of farther use to our hero, for by theirthe world, and knowing rand tour; for, as he had none of those petty a gentlee his attention, it holly applied to the study of mankind, their various passions and inclinations; and he reater improvement in his study, as in many of his characters they acted before hiuise
He saw in little and plain houses hospitality, charity and coilded and spacious roofs, littleness, uncharitableness and inhu of luxury and riot; he saw servants waste their reater nor more crafty thieves than domestic ones; andthe arbitrary tyrants in their own houses:-he saw ignorance and passion exercise the rod of justice; oppression, the hand friendshi+p and honesty in the opposite scale; pride and envy spurning and tra on as more worthy than themselves;-he saw the pure white robes of truth sullied with the black hue of hypocrisy and dissimulation; he sometimes, too,themselves in numberless unexhausted streams, conducted by the hands of two lovely servants, Goodness and Beneficence;-and he saw honesty, integrity and goodness of mind, inhabitants of the humble cot of poverty
All these observations afforded hience of the e his parents frequent visits, unknown to theuises; at which time, the tenderness he saw the their constant custom so to do of all travellers) always melted him into real tears
It has been ree, is that which reater the mind is, the more insatiable is that passion: we may, without flattery, say no man had a more boundless one than our hero; for, not satisfied with the observations he had land and Wales, (which we are well assured were entlen parts,) he now resolved to see other countries and ined it would enable hireater service to the co hireater success
He con to his school-fellow, Escott, one of those who joined the gipseys with him, (for neither of the four wholly quitted the coreed to acco a vessel ready to sail for Newfoundland, tying at Dartreed to e ree which relates to our hero; we shall therefore pass it by, and land hi the fishi+ng season, he acquired all the inforht be useful to him, and returned in the same vessel to Dart with hi, which he had enticed to follow hientle as a lamb, by an art peculiar to hiipseys, and they were loud in his praises, when they understood he had undertaken this voyage to enable hireater success He accordingly, in a few days, went out on a cruise in the character of a shi+pwrecked sailor, lost in a vessel ho to Pool, sometimes to Dartmouth, at other times to other ports, and under such or such coave account of such ot before under this character was considerable, it was ive an exact account of Newfoundland, the settlements, harbours, fishery, and the inhabitants thereof, he applied with great confidence to entlemen well acquainted with those parts; so that those to whom before his prudence would not let hireatest benefactors, as the perfect account he gave of the country engaged theive credit to all he asserted, and made them very liberal in his favour