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 What were the consequences, and what was Yorick's catastrophe thereupon, you will read in the next chapter.

Mortgager and Mortgageé differ the one from the other, not more in length of purse, than the Jester and Jesteé do, in that of memory. But in this the comparison between them runs, as the scholiasts call it, upon all-four; which, by the bye, is upon one or two legs more, than some of the best of Homer's can pretend to;—namely, That the one raises a sum and the other a laugh at your expence, and thinks no more about it. Interest, however, still runs on in both cases;—the periodical or accidental payments of it, just serving