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Chapter 28 My fathers collection was not great, but to make amends, it was curious; and consequently he was some time in making it; he had the great good fortune hewever, to set off well, in getting Bruscambilles prologue upon long noses, almost for nothingfor he gave no more for Bruscambille than three half-crowns; owing indeed to the strong fancy which the stall-man saw my father had for the book the moment he laid his hands upon it.There are not three Bruscambilles in Christendomsaid the stall-man, except what are chaind up in the libraries of the curious. My father flung down the money as quick as lightningtook Bruscambille into his bosomhied home from Piccadilly to Coleman-street with it, as he would have hied home with a treasure, without taking his hand once off from Bruscambille all the way. To those who do not yet know of which gender Bruscambille isinasmuch as a prologue upon long noses might easily be done by eithertwill be no objection against the simileto say, That when my father got home, he solaced himself with Bruscambille after the manner in which, tis ten to one, your worship solaced yourself with your first mistressthat is, from morning even unto night: which, by-the- bye, how delightful soever it may prove to the inamoratois of little or no entertainment at all to by- standers.Take notice, I go no farther with the similemy fathers eye was greater than his appetitehis zeal greater than his knowledgehe cooldhis affections became dividedhe got hold of Prignitzpurchased Scroderus, Andrea Paraeus, Bouchets Evening Conferences, and above all, the great and learned Hafen Slawkenbergius; of which, as I shall have much to say by-and-byeI will say nothing now. |
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