but their Duty; and for this Reason, they often became a Prey to Knaves, who slipp’d no Opportunity of spoiling them, knowing their Lenity such, that, if detected, they should not be prosecuted.  I have been assured, that a Priest being told, such a Farmer had stole away a great many Tithe Sheafs, the good Divine answer’d, If he’s poor, it’s no Theft; what I have belongs to the Needy, and he takes but his own.  The Day after he sent him all the Corn he was Master of, and by this Act of Charity, wou’d have starved before next Harvest, if a Minister of State, in love with his Virtue, had not provided for him.  And I myself knew one, who hearing black Puddings were a Preservative against pestilential Infections, and that the Plague was within Two Thousand Leagues of our Island, laid out his whole Patrimony in Puddings, and sent ’em to every Sea-port in the Kingdom.

Have you Physicians among you? We have, said I, Men of extensive Charity, great Humility, profound Learning, without the least Tincture of Vanity.  They are so very conscientious, that shou’d they prescribe for a Patient, and he recover before he had taken all the Druggs brought in, they will pay for those which remain, out of their own Pockets.  They never take a fee, but when they prescribe, tho’ they visit you frequently, and never prescribe, without they see an absolute Necessity.  They a modest, that they attribute the Recovery of a Person to divine Providence, and are ready to accuse themselves of Ignorance or Negligence should he die under their Hands.

Have you any Lawyers in your part of the World? Lawyers, said I, we have, but not more than necessary.

You have then, said my Lord, very few, or are a litigious People.  What sort of Creatures are they? They are, said I, brought up many Years in the Study of the Laws, and pass a strict Examination, not only as to their Knowledge, but their Morals, before they are admitted to the Bar; which is the Reason, that we have no Tricks, no Delays, to weary and ruine the poor Client who has a Right, but no Money; they come directly to the Merits of the Cause, and never endeavour by their Rhetorick to put a fair Face on a bad one; and not one, if his Client does not deceive him, will appear on the Side of Oppression or Injustice; and if he is himself impos’d upon, when he perceives it, he will not defend the Wrong.  This Care of examining into the Probity of the Students, and Candidates for the Bar, is the Reason our Lawyers are very near in as great Reputation as our Priests.

Do you know from what you have said, Probusomo, that I conclude your Statesmen Fools, and that you will soon fall a Prey to some other Nation; or you either very ignorant of your National Affairs, or a very great Lyar; or otherwise think me easily impos’d upon.  I have been many Years at the Head of the Cacklogallinian Affairs, under our August Master, Hippomina Connuferento, Darling of the