There was not a week that he had not some of my unhappy fellow-servants before a magistrate, often for the most trivial faultsa word, a lookand had them flogged by sentence of the court, by the scourger of the district, till the blood streamed from their backs.

If that is not enough, they must be given over to the scourgers, who like their task and get good fees for it.

I do; their sculpture and painting have been employed on most ignoble objectson scourgers and hangmen, on beggarly enthusiasts and base impostors.