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Chapter 44 Well not stop two moments, my dear Sir,only, as we have got through these five volumes (In the first edition, the sixth volume began with this chapter.), (do, Sir, sit down upon a setthey are better than nothing) let us just look back upon the country we have passd through. What a wilderness has it been! and what a mercy that we have not both of us been lost, or devoured by wild beasts in it! Did you think the world itself, Sir, had contained such a number of Jack Asses?How they viewd and reviewd us as we passed over the rivulet at the bottom of that little valley!and when we climbed over that hill, and were just getting out of sightgood God! what a braying did they all set up together! Prithee, shepherd! who keeps all those Jack Asses?. . .. Heaven be their comforterWhat! are they never curried?Are they never taken in in winter?Bray braybray. Bray on,the world is deeply your debtor;louder stillthats nothing:in good sooth, you are ill-used: Was I a Jack Asse, I solemnly declare, I would bray in G-sol-re-ut from morning, even unto night. |
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