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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Ah! tu casses la silence!" And thus we soon got a-laughing, beyond our power of suppressing it. At recreation, that day, the first question asked by many of us, was, "How did you like your cider?" Jane Ray never had a fixed place to sleep in.
This they were exceedingly glad to do: so that the honest shipman's good nature and politeness were vastly increased, and he waved his hook in so funny and so boyish a way it set them all a-laughing. So it was arranged forthwith that he should be at a quiet point on the shore at a certain hour to row the governor and his friends to the Nell Gwynn.
He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen a-laughing, although, at the same time she was heartily vexed, and would have immediately cashiered him, if I had not been so generous as to intercede. Her majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate and, after knocking out the marrow, placed the bone on the dish erect, as it stood before.
In the act of passing, the gentleman, still standing, pointed at this chest with his cane an elegant gold-headed staff and roared out in a loud voice: "Are you come after this, Abram Dowling? Then come and take it." And thereat, as he sat down again, burst out a-laughing as though what he had said was the wittiest jest conceivable.
"To be sure I'm man enough to go with you," he said; "and if you mean me any harm I can look out for myself; and if I can't, why, here is something can look out for me," and therewith he lifted up the flap of his coat pocket and showed the butt of a pistol he had fetched with him when he had set out from his lodging house that evening. At this the other burst out a-laughing.
During supper we talked of music, on which subject he spoke well: he knew all the great virtuosi, all the celebrated works, all the actors, actresses, pretty women, and powerful lords; in short nothing was mentioned but what he seemed thoroughly acquainted with. Though no sooner was any topic started, than by some drollery, which set every one a-laughing, he made them forget what had been said.
O thou who art like a chestnut, dark without but white of heart within! O thou of the like of whom a certain poet said *" The Eunuch burst out a-laughing and asked "Said what? Speak out by Allah and be quick about it." So Hasan the Bassorite began reciting these couplets:
The lad shouted at him: "One is named Simon something ... that is not a name ... Simon indeed." And he, on the brink of tears, replied for the third time: "I am named Simon." The urchins fell a-laughing. The lad triumphantly lifted up his voice: "You can see plainly that he has no papa." A deep silence ensued.
The doctor took more snuff and fell a-laughing. "But hark to this," said he, "here's the cream of it all: "You will scarce believe me when I say that the baggage was near beside herself with anger at what I had to tell her. 'Marry that misshapen duke! cries she, 'I would quicker marry Doctor Johnson! And truly, I begin to fear she hath formed an affection for some like, foul-linened beggar.
Upon that, Ludovico burst out a-laughing, quite loud; so he put me in a huff, for I did not like that either I or you, ma'amselle, should be laughed at; and I turned away quick, but he stopped me. "Don't be affronted, Annette," said he, "but I cannot help laughing;" and with that he laughed again.
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