art) 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 L300,000 or L400,000: 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 consideration he will promise for other gamesters,
especially when they were at it so high, as he intimates not only to
have been in use, but to be like enough to come about again. Wherefore
say I, let them throw with boxes, for unless we will be below the
politics of an ordinary, there is no such bar to cogging, it is known
to his lordship that our game is most at a throw, and that every cast
of our dice is in our suffrages, nor will he deny that partiality in a
suffrage is downright cogging.

"If the Venetian boxes be the most sovereign of all remedies against this
same cogging, is it not a strange thing that they should be thrown first
into the fire by a fair gamester? Men are naturally subject to all kinds
of passions; some you have that are not able to withstand the brow of an
enemy, and others that make nothing of this, are l