has a refreshing coolness in it--yet
I presume is no more than the vehicle--and that the oil and
lamp-black with which the paper is so strongly impregnated, does the
business.--Right, said Eugenius, and is, of any outward application I
would venture to recommend, the most anodyne and safe.

Was it my case, said Gastripheres, as the main thing is the oil and
lamp-black, I should spread them thick upon a rag, and clap it on
directly.--That would make a very devil of it, replied Yorick.--And
besides, added Eugenius, it would not answer the intention, which is
the extreme neatness and elegance of the prescription, which the Faculty
hold to be half in half;--for consider, if the type is a very small one
(which it should be) the sanative particles, which come into contact in
this form, have the advantage of being spread so infinitely thin, and
with such a mathematical equality (fresh paragraphs and large capitals
excepted) as no art or management of the spatula can come up to.--It
falls out very luckily, replied Phutatorius, that the second edition
of my treatise de Concubinis retinendis is at this instant in
the press.--You may take any leaf of it, said Eugenius--no matter
which.--Provided, quoth Yorick, there is no bawdry in it.--

They are just now, replied Phutatorius, printing off the ninth
chapter--which is the last chapter but one in the book.--Pray what
is the title of that chapter? said Yorick; making a respectful bow to
Phutatorius as he spoke.--I think, answered Phutatorius, 'tis that de re
concubinaria.

For Heaven's sake keep out of that chapter, quoth Yorick.

--By all means--added Eugenius.

Chapter 2.LXIV.

--Now, quoth Didius, rising up, and laying his right hand with
his fingers spread upon his breast--had such a blunder about a
christian-name happened before the Reformation--(It happened the day
before yesterday, quoth my uncle Toby to himself)--and when baptism
was administer'd in Latin--('Twas all in English, said my uncle)--many
things might have coincided with it, and upon the authority of sundry
decreed cases, to have pronounced the baptism null, with a power of
giving the child a new name--Had a priest, for instance, which was no
uncommon thing, through ignorance of the Latin tongue, baptized a child
of Tom-o'Stiles, in nomine patriae & filia & spiritum sanctos--the
baptism was held null.--I beg your pardon, replied Kysarcius--in
that case, as the mistake was only the terminations, the bapt