servant too necessary to me. He knew I must submit to any terms with, or
any treatment from, him.

"He knew it was easier for him to find another such a tailor as me
than for me to procure such another workman as him: for this reason he
exerted the most notorious and cruel tyranny, seldom giving me a civil
word; nor could the utmost condescension on my side, though attended
with continual presents and rewards, and raising his wages, content or
please him. In a word, he was as absolutely my master as was ever an
ambitious, industrious prime minister over an indolent and voluptuous
king. All my other journeymen paid more respect to him than to me; for
they considered my favor as a necessary consequence of obtaining his.

"These were the most remarkable occurrences while I acted this part.
Minos hesitated a few moments, and then bid me get back again, without
assigning any reason."

CHAPTER XXIII

The life of alderman Julian.

"I now revisited England, and was born at London. My father was one of
the magistrates of that city. He had eleven children, of whom I was the
eldest. He had great success in trade, and grew extremely rich, but the
largeness of his family rendered it impossible for him to leave me
a fortune sufficient to live well on independent of business. I was
accordingly brought up to be a fishmonger, in which capacity I myself
afterwards acquired very considerable wealth.

"The same disposition of mind which in princes is called ambition is in
subjects named faction. To this temper I was greatly addicted from my
youth. I was, while a boy, a great partisan of prince John's against his
brother Richard, during the latter's absence in the holy war and in his
captivity. I was no more than one-and-twenty when I first began to make
political speeches in public, and to endeavor to foment disquietude and
discontent in the city. As I was pretty well qualified for this office,
by a great fluency of words, an harmonious accent, a graceful delivery,
and above all an invincible assurance, I had soon acquired some
reputation among the younger citizens, and some of the weaker and more
inconsiderate of a riper age. This, co-operating with my own natural
vanity, made me extravagantly proud and supercilious. I soon began to
esteem myself a man of some consequence, and to overlook persons every
way my superiors.

"The famous Robin Hood, and his companion Little John, at this time made
a considerable figure in Y