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translation of this passage by Eachard, exhibits a strain of vulgar petulance, which is very opposite to the chastened simplicity of the original.

", seriously, poor Davy, 'tis high time to bestir thy stumps, and to leave of dozing; at least, if a body may guess at the old man's meaning by his mumping. If these brains do not help me out at a dead lift, to pot goes Pilgarlick, or his master, for certain: and, hang me for a dog, if I know