Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 by Various
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_Aud._ Give ye good even, WILLIAM.
_Will._ And good even to you, Sir! _Touch._ Good even, gentle friend.... Art thou wise? _Will._ Ay, Sir, I have a pretty wit. _Touch._ You do desire this maid? _Will._ I do, Sir. _Touch._ Give me your hand. Art thou learned? _Will._ No, Sir. _Touch._ Then learn this of me; to have is to have; for it is a great figure in Gladstonian rhetoric, that votes being deducted from one Party and added to another, by putting the one Out do put the other In; for all your writers do consent that _ipse_ is he: now you are not _ipse_, for I am he. _Will._ Which he, Sir? _Touch._ He, Sir, that must marry the woman. Therefore, you Tory, abandon--which is, in the vulgar, leave--the society, which in the boorish is, company--of this female,--which in the common is, woman; which together is, abandon the society of this female, or Tory, thou vanishest; or, to thy better understanding, skedaddlest; or, to wit, I defeat thee, make thee away, translate thy majority into minority, thine Office into Opposition; I |
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