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 they should be thrashed, "ad putorem usque,"—till they stink again.

These are disquisitions, which my father, who had laid in a great stock of knowledge of this kind, will be very busy with, in the progress of my uncle Tobys affairs: I must anticipate thus much, That from his theories of love, (with which, by the way, he contrived to crucify my uncle Tobys mind, almost as much as his armours themselves)—he took a single step into practice;—and by means of a camphorated cerecloth, which he found means to impose upon the taylor for buckram, whilst he was making my uncle Toby a new pair of breeches, he produced Gordonius's effect upon my uncle Toby without the disgrace.

What changes this produced, will be read in its proper place: all that is need-