he love of dress among those plain
and frugal citizens. After some stay here, they made a tour through
Somerset and Dorset to Hampshire, where they paid a visit to an uncle of
our hero's living then at Dorchester, near Gosport, who was a clergyman
of distinguished merit and character; here they were received with great
politeness and hospitality, and abode a considerable time.

His uncle took this opportunity of making use of every argument to
persuade him to quit the community of the gipseys; but our hero was so
thoroughly fixed in his principles, that even that argument which
oftentimes convinces patriots in a few hours, that all they said and did
before was wrong, that kings have a divine right to grind the faces of
their subjects, and that power which lays its iron hand on Nabal's goodly
vineyard, and says, "This is mine, for so I will," is preferable to
heavenly liberty, which says to every man, "Possess what is thine own,
reap what thou hast sown, gather what thou hast planted, eat, drink, and
lie down secure;" even this powerful argument had no effect upon our
hero; for, though his uncle made him very lucrative offers for the
present, and future promises of making him heir of all his possessions,
yet remembering his engagements with the gipseys, he rejected them all;
and reflecting that he had long lived useless to that community, he began
to prepare for his departure from his uncle's, in order to make some
incursions on the enemy.

To do this with more effect, he bethought himself of a new stratagem. He
therefore equipped himself in a loose black gown, puts on a band, a large
white peruke, and a broad-brimmed hat;--his whole deportment was
agreeable to his dress;--his pace was solemn and slow, his countenance
thoughtful and grave, his eyes turned on the ground--but now and then
raised in seeming ejaculations to heaven: in every look and action he
betrayed his want, but at the same time seemed overwhelmed with that
shame which modest merit feels, when it is obliged to solicit the cold
hand of charity; this behaviour excited the curiosity of many gentlemen,
clergy, &c., to inquire into the circumstances of his misfortunes; but it
was with difficulty they could engage him to relate them, it being with
much seeming reluctance that he acquainted them with his having exercised
for many years the sacred office of a clergyman at Aberistwith, a parish
in Wales; but that the government changing, he had preferred quittin