Beſides, they would have diſperſed, had the Progreſs 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 Cuſtom to the Weight of them to feel it ever after. In ſhort, they were already accuſtomed to a thouſand Conveniencies which obliged them to ſtick cloſe to each other, it was not ſo eaſy for them to diſperſe as in early Times, when, as no Man ſtood in need of any one but himſelf, every one did what he liked beſt without waiting for the Conſent of any other.
Pag. 137.
(18.) Marſhal de V*** uſed to relate, that in one of his Campaigns the exceſſive Frauds of an Undertaker for Proviſions having made the Army ſuffer and murmur a great deal, he took him roundly to taſk and threatened him with the Gallows. Theſe Menaces do not concern me, immediately replied the Knave, and I am glad to have this Opportunity of telling you, that 'tis no ſuch eaſy Matter to hang a Man who can throw away a hundred thouſand Crowns. I don't know how it came to paſs, ingenuouſly added the Marſhal, but ſo it hap-
