"And, egad, if they had been never so good, this next line confutes 'em. [Reads.]
Hear, and be dumb, thou wretch! that guide am I.
"There's a surprize for you now!—How sneakingly t'other looks?—Was not that pretty now, to make her ask for a guide first, and tell her she was one? Who could have thought that this little mouse had the Pope, and a whole general council, in her belly?—Now Dapple had nothing to say to this; and, therefore, you'll see she grows peevish. [Reads.]
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Come leave your cracking tricks; and, as they say, }
Use not that barber that trims time, delay;— }
Which, egad, is new, and my own.— }
I've eyes as well as you to find the way."— }
Then on they jogged; and, since an hour of talk
Might cut a banter on the tedious walk,