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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: preceese, scrupulous people, and will allow nothing for
peccadilloes. So that if a boor complains of a broken head, or a
beer-seller of a broken can, or a daft wench does but squeak loud
enough to be heard above her breath, a soldier of honour shall be
dragged, not before his own court-martial, who can best judge of
and punish his demerits, hut before a base mechanical burgo-
master, who shall menace him with the rasp-house, the cord, and
what not, as if he were one of their own mean, amphibious,
twenty-breeched boors. So not being able to dwell longer among
those ungrateful plebeians, who, although unable to defend
themselves by their proper strength, will nevertheless allow the
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