says he,
do you call them? they are all of them Stars. He might as well have put Garters to 'em. Then pray do but mind the two or three next Lines? Ch—rch and P—dd-ing in the same Sentence! Our Clergy are very much beholden to him.
Upon this the third Gentleman, who was of a mild Disposition, and, as I found, a Whig in his Heart, de
Sir
ed him not to be too severe upon the
Spectator
neither; For, says he,
you find he is very cautious of giving Offence, and has therefore put two Dashes into his Pudding.
A Fig for his Dash,
says the angry Politician.
In his next Sentence he gives a plain Innuendo, that our Posterity will be in a sweet P—ckle. What does the Fool mean by his Pickle? Why does not he write it at length, if he means honestly?
I have read over the whole Sentence,