carpenters at work in joining a bedstead, he, with many dreadful
oaths and opprobrious invectives, ordered them to desist, swearing
he would suffer no bulkheads nor hurricane-houses to stand where
he was master: but finding his remonstrances disregarded by these
mechanics, who believed him to be some madman belonging to the
family, who had broken from his confinement, he assaulted them
both with great fury and indignation, and was handled so roughly,
in the encounter, that in a very short time he measured his length
on the floor, in consequence of a blow that he received from a hammer
by which the sight of his remaining eye was grievously endangered.

Having thus reduced him to a state of subjection, they resolved
to secure him with cords, and were actually busy in adjusting his
fetters, when he was exempted from the disgrace by the accidental
entrance of his spouse, who rescued him from the hands of
his adversaries, and, in the midst of her condolence, imputed his
misfortune to the inconsiderate roughness of his own disposition.

He breathed nothing but revenge, and made some efforts to chastise
the insolence of the workmen, who, as soon as they understood
his quality, asked forgiveness for what they had done with great
humility, protesting that they did not know he was master of the
house. But, far from being satisfied with this apology, he groped
about for the bell, the inflammation of his eye having utterly
deprived him of sight; and the rope being, by the precaution of
the delinquents, conveyed out of his reach, began to storm with
incredible vociferation, like a lion roaring in the toil, pouring
forth innumerable oaths and execrations, and calling by name Hatchway
and Pipes, who, being within hearing, obeyed the extraordinary
summons, and were ordered to put the carpenters in irons, for having