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78 A TOUR THROUGH
another, and to every person to whom they
have once professed it, they have ever
maintained the most unshaken fidelity.
The magistrates have often been obliged to
protect them, and even pay them court, as
they are known to be perfectly determined
and despefate ; and so extremely vindictive,
that they will certainly put any person to
death, who has ever given them just cause
of provocation. On the other hand, it
never was known that any person who had
put himself under their protection, and
shewed that he had confidence in them, had
cause to repent of it, or was injured by
any of them, in the most minute trifle;
but on the contrary, they will protect him
from impositions of every kind, and scorn
to go halves with the landlord, like most
other conductors and travelling servants;
and will defend him with their lives, if
there is occasion. That those of their
number, who have thus enlisted themselves
in the service of society, are known and
respe&ed
another, and to every person to whom they
have once professed it, they have ever
maintained the most unshaken fidelity.
The magistrates have often been obliged to
protect them, and even pay them court, as
they are known to be perfectly determined
and despefate ; and so extremely vindictive,
that they will certainly put any person to
death, who has ever given them just cause
of provocation. On the other hand, it
never was known that any person who had
put himself under their protection, and
shewed that he had confidence in them, had
cause to repent of it, or was injured by
any of them, in the most minute trifle;
but on the contrary, they will protect him
from impositions of every kind, and scorn
to go halves with the landlord, like most
other conductors and travelling servants;
and will defend him with their lives, if
there is occasion. That those of their
number, who have thus enlisted themselves
in the service of society, are known and
respe&ed