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Updated: May 8, 2025
By the good King William that saved us from Pope, and ahem I beg pardon, Willy, but, upon my soul, he took me completely in. I say, I shall show you 'Hop-and-go-constant', and when you see him you'll admit the 'Hop, but the devil a bit you will find of the 'Go-constant."
Then, as for managing a bargain upon my soul, I don't think he treated me well, though, in the swop of 'Hop-and-go-constant' against my precious bit of blood, 'Pat the Spanker. He made me pay him twenty-five pounds boot for an old But you shall see him, Reilly, you shall see him, Willy, and if ever there was a greater take in you needn't smile, He en, nor look at Willy.
"Well, papa," asked his daughter, putting the question with a smile and a blush, "pray what is this speculation?" "Why, the fact is, I'll put him into your hands to convert him make him a staunch Protestant, and take him for your pains. Accomplish this, and let long-legged, knock-kneed Whitecraft, and his twelve thousand a year, go and bite some other fool as he bit me in 'Hop-and-go-constant."
To say truth, he had often felt it rather an unnatural process to marry so lovely a girl to "such an ugly stork of a man as Whitecraft was, and a knave to boot. I cannot forget how he took me in by the 'Hop-and-go-constant' affair.
"Oh, ay, you allude to the affair of 'Hop-and-go-constant' and 'Pat the Spanker; but you know, my dear sir, I gave you heavy boot;" and as he spoke, he pulled up the lapels of his coat, and glanced complacently at the profile of his face and person in the glass. "Pray, is Miss Folliard at home, sir?" "Again I'm forgotten," thought the squire. "Ah, what an affectionate son-in-law he'd make!
He's quite round in the shoulders; and yet so inconsistent are women that she calls a protuberance that resembles the letter C the line of beauty. Then again he bit me in 'Hop-and-go-constant; and you know yourself, Willy, that no person likes to be bit, especially by the man he intends for his son-in-law. If he gives me the bite before marriage, what would he not do after it?"
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