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For heaven's sake keep out of that chapter, quoth Yorick.

—By all means—added Eugenius.

CHAP. XXIX.

— Now, quoth Didius, rising up, and laying his right-hand with his fingers spread upon his breast—had such a blunder about a christian-name happened before the reformation—(it happened the day before yesterday, quoth my uncle Toby to himself) and when baptism was administer'd in Latin—('Twas all in English, said my uncle)—Many things might have coincided with it, and upon the authority of sundry decreed cases, to have pronounced the baptism null, with a power of giving the