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 Bayes.Every Jot, I'gad, or rather better. Well, she can do it two ways, either about Emission or Reception of Light, or else about Epsom-waters, but I think the last is most familiar; therefore speak, my pretty one.

As though 'tis controverted in the School, If Waters pass by Urine or by Stool. Shall we who are Philosophers, thence gather From this Dissention that they work by neither.

And I'gad, she's in the right on't; but mind now, she comes upon her swop!

All this I did, your Arguments to try.

And I'gad, if they had been never so good, this next Line confutes 'em.

Hear, and be dumb, thou Wretch, that Guide am I.

There's a Surprize for you now! How sneakingly t'other looks? Was not that pretty now, to make her ask for a Guide first, and then tell her she was one? Who could have thought that this little Mouse had the Pope and a whole General Council in her Belly? Now Dapple had nothing to say to this; and therefore you'll see she grows peevish.

Come leave your Cracking Tricks, and as they say, Use not, that Barber that trims time, delay
 * Which I'gad is new, and my own.

I've Eyes as well as you to find the way. Then on they jogg'd, and since an Hour of Talk Might cut a Banter on the tedious Walk;