how jack, having got rid of the old landlord, set up another to his mind, quarrelled with martin, and turned him out of doors. how he pillaged all his shops, and abolished his whole dispensatory. how the new landlord 95 laid about him, mauled peter, worried martin, and made the whole neighbourhood tremble. how jack’s friends fell out among themselves, split into a thousand parties, turned all things topsy-turvy, till everybody grew weary of them; and at last, the blustering landlord dying, jack was kicked out of doors, a new landlord 96 brought in, and martin re-established. how this new landlord let martin do what he pleased, and martin agreed to everything his pious landlord desired, provided jack might be kept low. of several efforts jack made to raise up his head, but all in vain; till at last the landlord died, and was succeeded by one 97 who was a great friend to peter, who, to humble martin, gave jack some liberty. how martin grew enraged at this, called in a foreigner 98 and turned out the landlord; in which jack concurred with martin, because this landlord was entirely devoted to peter, into whose arms he threw himself, and left his country. how the new landlord secured martin in the full possession of his former rights, but would not allow him to destroy jack, who had always been his friend. how jack got up his head in the north, and put himself in possession of a whole canton, to the great discontent of martin, who finding also that some of jack’s friends were allowed to live and get their bread in the south parts of the country, grew highly discontented with the new landlord he had called in to his assistance. how this landlord kept martin in order, upon which he fell into a raging fever, and swore he would hang himself or join in with peter, unless jack’s children were all turned out to starve. of several attempts to cure martin, and make peace between him and jack, that they might unite against peter; but all made ineffectual by the great address of a number of peter’s friends, that herded among martin’s, and appeared the most zealous for his interest. how martin, getting abroad in this mad fit, looked so like peter in his air and dress, and talked so like him, that many of the neighbours could not distinguish the one from the other; especially when martin went up and down strutting in peter’s armour, which he had borrowed to fight jack 99. what remedies were used to cure martin’s distemper . . .

here the author being seized with a fit of dulness, to which he is very subject, after having read a poetical epistle addressed to . . . it entirely composed his senses, so that he has not writ a line since.

n.b. — some things that follow after this are not in the ms., but seem to have been written since, to fill up the place of what was not thought convenient then to print.