I ſhould diſadviſe the bringing any ſuch Action.’
‘Well, (ſays the Squire) if it be nullus Bonus, let us drink about, and talk a little of the State of the Nation, or ſome ſuch Diſcourſe that we all underſtand; for I am ſure I don’t underſtand a Word of this. It may be Learning and Senſe for aught I know; but you ſhall never perſuade me into it. Pox! you have neither of you mentioned a Word of that poor Lad who deſerves to be commended. D—n me, here’s Tom’s Health, I ſhall love the Boy for it the longeſt Day I have to live.’
Thus was this Debate interrupted; but it would probably have been ſoon reſumed, had not Mr. Allworthy preſently called for his Coach, and carried off the two Combatants.
Such was the Concluſion of this Adventure of the Bird, and the Dialogue occaſioned by it, which we could not help recounting to our Reader, though it happenedſome
