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the great and tremendous oath of William the Conqueror, (By the splendour of God) down to the lowest oath of a scavenger, (Damn your eyes) which was not to be found in Ernulphus.—In short, he would add,—I defy a man to swear out of it.
The hypothesis is, like most of my father's, singular and ingenious too;—nor have I any objection to it, but that it overturns my own.
CHAP. XIII.
———Bless my soul!—my poor mistress is ready to faint,—and her pains are gone,—and the drops are done,—and the bottle of julap is broke,—and the nurse has cut her arm,—(and I, my thumb, cried Dr. Slop) and
