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"Why, it was all along of he, man," continued Lance, "that is, of Bridgenorth, that she did not follow me-Gad, I first walked slow, and then stopped, and then turned back a little, and then began to wonder what she had made of herself, and to think I had borne myself something like a jackass in the matter."
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"That I deny," said Whitaker, "never jackass but would have borne him better-but go on."
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Since we have a King willing to do justice, and a House of Commons to uphold prosecutions, why, damn me, the cause must not stand still for lack of evidence."
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CHAPTER XXVIII A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions-always in the wrong- Was everything by starts, but nothing long; Who, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then, all for women, painting, fiddling, drinking; Besides a thousand freaks that died in thinking.
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"And could you not have said so at first, you blockhead?" said the Duke, signing the paper without looking at the contents-"What other letters?
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"I would have it so, you blockhead.
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Damn his politic pate, that would make all men dance after his pipe!"
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I remember well enough that my roundheaded father-in-law, Fairfax, had the island from the Long Parliament; and was ass enough to quit hold of it at the Restoration, when, if he had closed his clutches, and held fast, like a true bird of prey, as he should have done, he might have kept it for him and his.
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Another thing is, there is a blockhead of an old Cavalier, who must needs be a bustler in the Countess of Derby's behalf-he is fast in hold, with the whole tribe of witnesses at his haunches."
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In this light it was exhibited to the Duke of Buckingham, who, either to sustain his character for daring gallantry, or in order to gratify some capricious fancy, had at one time made love to the reigning favourite, and experienced a repulse which he had never forgiven.
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When they were out of sight of the King and his party, the musician wished to enter into conversation with his companions, and addressed himself first to Fenella with a broad compliment of, "By the mass, ye dance rarely-ne'er a slut on the boards shows such a shank!
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"Right as a pint bumper, Tom," said his friend-"Isschar is an ass that stoopeth between two burdens."
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He was pleased to threaten to brain me with a chicken-bone, as he disdainfully expressed it; but the King said, 'George, you have but a Rowland for an Oliver.'
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But your Laertes is fast in the Fleet; and I suppose his blundering blockhead of an antagonist is dead or dying."
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"May go to the devil for a self-conceited ass.
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But what likelihood can there be that I should have colleagued with a decrepit buffoon, with whom I never had an instant's communication, save once at an Easter feast, when I whistled a hornpipe, as he danced on a trencher to amuse the company?"
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"It is the device of the Papist whore of Portsmouth," said one.
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"Treason!-treason!" exclaimed the old Knight-"Treason against God and King Charles!-Oh, for one half-hour of the broadsword which I parted with like an ass!"
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"Your Majesty has rightly guessed it," said the Duke; "and I suspect she has put a trick upon me, by substituting the dwarf in her place; for Christian thinks--" "Damn Christian!" said the King hastily-"I wish they would bring him hither, that universal referee.