oaths of allegiance to the
sovereign, was soon after sent out by him on a cruise upon their enemies.

Our hero's wit was now set to work, by what stratagems he might best
succeed. The first that occurred to his thoughts was that of equipping
himself with an old pair of trowsers, enough of a jacket to cover his
nakedness, stockings such as nature gave, shoes (or rather the body of
shoes, for soles they had none) which had leaks enough to sink a first
rate man of war, and a woollen cap, so black that one might more safely
swear it had not been washed since Noah's flood, than any electors can
that they receive no bribes. Being thus attired, our hero changed his
manners with his dress; he forgot entirely his family, education, and
politeness, and became neither more nor less than an unfortunate
shipwrecked seaman.

Here, if we may be allowed to compare great things with small, we could
wish that all orders of men were strict imitators of our hero; we mean
that they would put on the characteristics and qualifications of their
employment, at the same time they invest themselves with the ensigns of
it; that the divine, when he puts on his sacred and venerable habit,
would clothe himself with piety, goodness, gentleness, long-suffering,
charity, temperance, contempt of filthy lucre, and other godlike
qualifications of his office; that the judge, at the time he puts on his
ermined robes, would put on righteousness and equity as an upper garment,
with an integrity of mind more white and spotless than the fairest
ermine; that the grave physician, when he puts on his large perriwig,
would put under it the knowledge of the human frame, of the virtues and
effects of his medicines, of the signs and nature of diseases, with the
most approved and experienced forms of cure; that the mechanic, when he
puts on his leather or woollen apron, put on diligence, frugality,
temperance, modesty, and good nature; and that kings themselves, when the
crown, which is adorned with pearls and many precious stones, is put on
their heads, would put on at the same time the more inestimable gems of
all the precious virtues; that they would remember at times, they were
invested with the dalmatica at their coronation, only as an emblem of the
ornament of a good life and holy actions; that the rod they received was
the rod of virtue and equity, to encourage and make much of the godly,
and to terrify the wicked; to show the way to those that go astray, and