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SQUIRE PEDANT. 31 ineptitude for his function. Being a leucothiop, he was not even a mediocrist, but a mere polypragmatical hafter or barrator. His inscience of avitous justicements, and of lexicology, his perissology and battology, imparted to his tractation of his cause, an imperspecuity which rendered it immomentous to the juratory audients. The preludious part of his apertion of the accrimination, was ambagious and catachrestical. His inhability was very apodictic in the adduction, adjuration, and scisitation of his pseudo testificators. They were a mendacious clan, and their testifications were absonous, and devoid of comprobation. In verity, the mendacity of some of the testificators was so diaphanous that my propugner obtained from the domesmen the right of compurgation relative to them as deponents. But no compurgators could be adduced. In the final mediety of his locution, there was no concatenation of roborant circumstances, but a mere consarcination of commentitious allegata, which could never constitute a miniment of any nefandous piacle in me. After many supervacaneous iterations of mere fingle fangles, he commenced to supparasite the juratory maleficience, and ablegate me to lobspound, or mulct me to such a nummary amount, as to make the adeption of a fidejussor impracticable, and thus my relegation from their convicinity would be effectuated. Thus he dawdled; and such was his insulsity and the nebulosity of his harns, that he could not perceive the adiophory and oscitancy of his audients. He seemed to be acerb towards me in my russet, through mere prosopolepsy. The replication of my legist to this badinage, notwithstanding his pauciloquy, was prepotent and replete with the most pyrotic pasquinade.

He eclaircised all the nodose aspects in the accrimination, and evinced that my criminality was an apor-