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he was born;—They should have wiped it up, said my uncle Toby, and said no more about it.

CHAP. III.

When the cataplasm was ready, a scruple of decorum had unseasonably rose up in Susannah's conscience, about holding the candle, whilst Slop tied it on; Slop had not treated Susannah's distemper with anodines,—and so a quarrel had ensued betwixt them.

    ble, au moins dans le sens énigmatique que Nicius Erythræus a tâché de lui donner. Cet auteur dit que pour comprendre comme Lipse, a pû composer un ouvrage le premier jour de sa vie, il faut s'imaginer, que ce premier jour n'est pas celui de sa naissance charnelle, mais celui au quel il a commencé d'user de la raison; il vent que ç'ait été a l'age de neuf ans; et il nous veut persuader que ce fut en cet âge, que Lipse fit un poem.—Le tour est ingenieux, &c. &c.

———Oh!