. Adams were not necessary to have formed a right Judgment of
this Affair, on the first sight. He did not therefore want the Entreaties of the
poor Wretch to assist her, but lifting up his Crabstick, he immediately levelled
a Blow at that Part of the Ravisher's Head, where, according to the Opinion of
the Ancients, the Brains of some Persons are deposited, and which he had
undoubtedly let forth, had not Nature, (who, as wise Men have observed, equips
all Creatures with what is most expedient for them;) taken a provident Care, (as
she always doth with those she intends for Encounters) to make this part of the
Head three times as thick as those of ordinary Men, who are designed to exercise
Talents which are vulgarly called rational, and for whom, as Brains are
necessary, she is obliged to leave some room for them in the Cavity of the
Skull: whereas, those Ingredients being entirely useless to Persons of the
heroic Calling, she hath an Opportunity of thickening the Bone, so as to make it
less subject to any Impression or liable to be cracked or broken; and indeed, in
some who are predestined to the Command of Armies and Empires, she is supposed
sometimes to make that Part perfectly solid.
    As a Game-Cock when engaged in amorous Toying with a Hen, if perchance he
espies another Cock at hand, immediately quits his Female, and opposes himself
to his Rival; so did the Ravisher, on the Information of the Crabstick,
immediately leap from the Woman, and hasten to assail the Man. He had no Weapons
but what Nature had furnished him with. However, he clenched his Fist, and
presently darted it at that Part of Adams's Breast where the Heart is lodged.
Adams staggered at the Violence of the Blow, when throwing away his Staff, he
likewise clenched that Fist which we have before commemorated, and would have
discharged it full in the Breast of his Antagonist, had he not dexterously
caught it with his left Hand, at the same time darting his Head, (which some
modern Heroes, of the lower Class, use like the Battering-Ram of the Ancients,
for a weapon of Offence; another Reason to admire the Cunningness of Nature, in
composing it of those impenetrable Materials) dashing his Head, I say, into the
Stomach of Adams, he tumbled him on his Back, and not having any regard to the
Laws of Heroism, which would have restrained him from any farther Attack on his
Enemy, 'till he was again on his Legs, he threw
