intelligences your surveyors (you will break my heart) give the
turn to your primum mobile! And so I think they will; for you
will find that money is the primum mobile) and they will turn you
thus out of some œ300,000 or œ400,000: a pretty sum for urns and
balls, for boxes and pills, which these same quacksalvers are to
administer to the parishes; and for what disease I marvel! Or how
does it work? Out comes a constable, an overseer, and a
churchwarden! Mr. Speaker, I am amazed!"

Never was there goose so stuck with lard as my Lord
Epimonus's speech with laughter, the Archon having much ado to
recover himself in such a manner as might enable him to return
these thanks:

"In your whole lives, my lords, were you never entertained
with so much ingenuity, my Lord Epimonus having at once mended
all the faults of travellers. For, first, whereas they are
abominable liars, he has not told you (except some malicious body
has misinformed him concerning poor Spy) one syllable of
falsehood. And, secondly, whereas they never fail to give the
upper hand in all their discourses to foreign nations, still
jostling their own into the kennel, he bears an honor to his
country that will not dissolve in Cephalonia, nor be corrupted
with figs and melons, which I can assure you is an ordinary
obligation; and therefore hold it a matter of public concern that
we be to no occasion of quenching my lord's affections, nor is
there any such great matter between us, but, in my opinion, might
be easily reconciled, for though that which my lord gained by
sitting in the house, I steadfastly believe, as he can affirm,
was got fairly yet dare I not, nor do I think, that upon