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 provided this intention of restoring be really present, and afterwards carried into effect, I do highly commend this way of getting tobacco as likely to give the borrower a more universal taste in the herb, since if he borrow from many friends it is probable that he borrows, and likewise smokes, many sorts of tobacco. But if this intention of restoring be altogether absent, or if present never resulting in action, then it is no longer borrowing but sponging, a hateful and detestable practice, of which certain students at the University of Oxford did show their abhorrence in coining the future tense of a verb, to express a fellow who was notable for such parasitical champetry [sic]. Such a "sponge" will walk into another's rooms with a cheerful smile and "Heus! amice," or "Hullo! old fellow," it matters not which, and before he has tarried long out comes his pipe, and with some lame excuse of having forgotten his pouch, or the like, will dive deep into the tobacco-jar, and calling for ale, will