for preventing any Innovation that may hurt the Community.

Be not proud in Profperity: You have heard that Fortune turneth on a Wheel; and, if you have a good Place, you are at the Top of the Wheel. Then remember how often you have been stripped, and kicked out of Doors; your Wages all taken up before-hand, and spent in

red-heeled Shoes, fecond-hand Toupees, and repaired Lace Ruffles; befides, a fwingeing Debt to the Ale-wife and the Brandy-shop. The neighbouring Tapfter, who before would beckon you over to a favoury Bit of Ox-cheek in the Morning, give it you gratis, and only fcore you up for the Liquor, immediately after you were packed off in Difgrace, carried a Petition to your Mafter, to be paid out of your Wages, whereof not a Farthing was due, and then pursued you with Bailiffs into every blind Cellar. Remember how foon you grew shabby, thread-bare, and out at Heels; was forced to borrow an old Livery-coat, to make your Appearance while you were looking for a Place ; and fneak to every House where you have an old Acquaintance to fteal you a Scrap, to keep Life and Soul together; and, upon the Whole, were in the loweft Station of human Life, which, as the old Ballad fayeth, is that of a Skipkennel turned out of Place; I fay, remember all this now in your flourishing Condition. Pay your Contributions duly to your late Bro

thers

thers the Cadets, who are left to the wide World; take one of them as your Dependant, to fend on your Lady's Meffages, when you have a Mind to go to the Ale-house; flip him out privately, now and then, a Slice of Bread, and a Bit of cold Meat, your Mafter can afford it; and, if he be not yet put upon the Eftablishment for a Lodging, let him lie in the Stable, or the Coach-house, or under the Backftairs; and recommend him to all the Gentlemen who frequent your House, as an excellent Servant.

To grow old in the Office of a Footman, is the highest of all Indignities: Therefore, when you find Years coming on, without Hopes of a Place at Court, a Command in the Army, a Succeffion to the Stewardship, an Employment in the Revenue, (which two laft you cannot obtain without Reading or Writing) or running away with your Master's Niece, or Daughter; I directly advise you to go upon the Road, which is the only Poft of Honour left you; there you will meet many of of your old Comrades, and live a short Life and a merry one, and make a Figure at your Exit, fhall give you fome Instructions.

wherein I

The laft Advice I fhall give you, relateth to your Behaviour when you are going to be hanged, which, either for robbing your Mafter, for House-breaking, or going upon the Highway, or in a drunken Quarrel killing the first Man you meet, may very probably be your

Lot,

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Lot, and is owing to one of these three Qualities; either a Love of good Fellowship, a Generofity of Mind, or too much Vivacity of Spirits. Your good Behaviour on this Article, will concern your whole Community. Deny the Fact, with all Solemnity of Imprecations; an hundred of your Brethren, if they can be admitted, will attend about the Bar, and be ready, upon Demand, to give you a good Character before the Court; let nothing prevail on you to confefs, but the Promife of a Pardon for discovering your Comrades: But, I fuppofe all this to be in vain; for, if you escape now, your Fate will be the fame another Day, Get a Speech, to be written by the best Author of Newgate; fome of your kind Wenches will provide you with a Holland Shirt, and white Cap crowned with a crimson or black Ribbon; take Leave, chearfully, of all your Friends in Newgate; mount the Cart with Courage; fall on your Knees; lift up your Eyes; hold a Book in your Hands, although you cannot read a Word; deny the Fact at the Gallows; kifs and forgive the Hangman, and fo farewel, You fhall be buried in Pomp, at the Charge of the Fraternity; the Surgeons shall not touch a Limb of you; and your Fame fhall continue, until a Succeffor of equal Renown fucceedeth

in

your Place.

CHAP,

CHA P. IV.

DIRECTIONS to the COACHMAN.

You

OU are ftrictly bound to nothing, but to step into the Box, and carry your Master, or Lady.

Let your Horses be fo well trained, that, when you attend your Lady at a Vifit, they will wait until you flip into a neighbouring Ale-house, to take a Pot with a Friend.

When you are in no Humour to drive, tell your Mafter, that the Horses have got a Cold; that they want fhoeing; that Rain does them Hurt, and roughens their Coat, and rots the Harnefs. This may, likewife, be applied to

the Groom.

If your Mafter dineth with a Country Friend, drink as much as you can get; because it is allowed, that a good Coachman never driveth fo well, as when he is drunk; and then fhew your Skill, by driving, to an Inch, by a Precipice; and fay, you never drive fo well as when drunk.

If you find any Gentleman fond of one of your Horses, and willing to give you a Confideration, befide the Price, perfuade your Mafter to fell him; because he is fo vicious, that you cannot undertake to drive with him; and he is foundered into the Bargain.

Get

Get a Blackguard-boy to watch your Coach at the Church-door, on Sundays, that you and your Brother-coachmen may be merry together at the Ale-house, while your Master and Lady are at Church.

Take Care that your Wheels be good; and get a new Set bought as often as you can, whether you are allowed the old as a Perquifite, or not: In one Cafe, it will turn to your honeft Profit; and, in the other, it will be a juft Punishment on your Master's Covetousness; and, probably, the Coach-maker will confider you

too.

CHA P. V.

DIRECTIONS to the G ROOM.

YOU are the Servant upon whom the

You

Care of your Mafter's Honour, in all Journies, entirely dependeth; your Breast is the fole Repository of it. If he travels the Country, and lodgeth at Inns, every Dram of Brandy, every Pot of Ale, extraordinary, that you drink, raiseth his Character; therefore, his Reputation ought to be dear to you; and, I hope, you will not stint yourself in either. The Smith, the Sadler's Journeyman, the Cook at the Inn, the Oftler and the Boot-catcher, ought all, by your Means, to partake of your

Mafter's