I have referred to petty cheating, and to that wholesale criminality of adulteration. But _fraud_ is very common, and often on an enormous scale. Nor is there any remedy. In truth, it is so common, that, as all hope to have a turn at its advantage, none care to punish heavily him, who, by chance, has been too bold. The fraud must take the form of open robbery, or be of such grossness as to be hardly disguised, before the wrong-doer will be arrested. A man may enjoy unmolested, and even with respect, a great fortune acquired by notorious _trickery_. So universal is this toleration of roguery, that the Plays and Pastimes are often enlivened by comical illustrations of the various arts, tricks, and deceptions practised. The charlatans, rogues, cheats, and the like, are shown in the Lawyer, the Doctor, the Bonze (low-caste), and other professions and occupations. Endless are the villanies of the Lawyer--the _quack_ pretensions and impositions of the Medical man--the cant, hypocrisy and meanness of the Bonze. Among the professions and trades, the teacher is a brutal _ignoramus_, who beats and starves the wretched children under his care; the nurse quietly drinks herself drunk and goes to sleep, leaving the sick man to gasp and die for the drink close at hand, but which he cannot reach; the milkman stops at the pump, and fills up his milk-cans with water; the teaman shows and sells you one sort, but delivers a very different; the grocer says his prayers, hurries to his goods, asks his servant if "the sugar be sanded," "the rum watered," "the tobacco wet down," "the teas mixed," "the _small_ bottles filled," and the like; the tailor sells you more cloth than he knows will be required for your garments, and _cabbages_ the excess; the cabman who knows you are a stranger demands quadruple fare; the innkeeper gives you the meanest room, and charges you the price for the best; and so on through every business of life. The learned professions take the lead in this exhibition of roguery and immorality. The spectators never tire of these displays of the general rascality. The roguish landlord, the villanous horse-dealer, the artful, knavish servant, the Priest of Low Caste, and the Doctor, afford the most common diversion. The Lawyer is generally _diabolic_, the Bonze a hypocrite and knave, the medical man an impostor and dealer in medicines of infallible healing power. Much of this may be referred to the love of coarse humour--but its real base is to be found in the _degradation of morals_. These representations are _types_, and would only produce disgust, were not the rascalities represented familiar. The excesses and exaggerations are of the Play--but the _types_ are normal and common.