His lordship, too, has horses and dogs, in the welfare of which he feels a deep interest.' 'But why does he not feel an interest in us ?' 'So he does, for are not you the persons by whose toil and labor he is enabled to support them all ?' 'So that in point of fact, we are made indirectly the agents of his crimes.

The privations which we suffer--the sweat of our brows--the labor of our hands, go to the-support of his wantonness, his luxury, and his extravagance! This, then, is his interest in us ?' 'Yes--_work, that you may feed them_--starve, that his mistress may riot in wantonness; perish your children that his dogs may be fed!' In such a position as this, my Lord, I shall never place myself, but you may easily find many that will.

The moment your necessities are known, knavery will be immediately at work, and assume its guardianship over folly.

Indeed there is a monarchical spirit in knavery, which has never yet been observed.

The knave keeps his fool, as did the kings of old, with this only difference, and a material one it is--that whilst the fool always lived at the king's expense, the knave lives at the fool's.