[In the maxim cited the author relates how a footman about to be broke… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
SAPIR 861
[In the maxim cited the author relates how a footman about to be broken on the wheel danced on the scaffold. He seems to think that in his day the life of such servants was so miserable that their merriment was very doubtful.]
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