text:  He sometimes raved incoherently for hours together against the Squire; often in the midst of his speeches he was assailed with epileptic fits during which he displayed the strangest contortions and most laughable gestures; he threw entirely aside the decent coat he had worn for some time back and habitually attired himself in the old and threadbare raiment which he had worn after he and Martin had been so unceremoniously sent to the right-about by Lord Peter and even ran about the streets with his band tied round his peaked beaver bearing thereon the motto--"_Nemo me impune lacessit_