misericorjam

Updated: November 10, 2024

Now, my dear Barnet, for a man who begins so humbly with what my friend Father Prout calls an argamantum ad misericorjam, who ignowledges that his play is bad, that his pore dear helth is bad, and those cussid critix have played the juice with him I say, for a man who beginns in such a humbill toan, it's rather RICH to see how you end.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush