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No, Sir, you had good Clothes when you came first, but they dwindled daily, till they dwindled to this old Campaign with tan'd coloured Lining once red but now all Colours of the Rain-bow, a Cloke to sculk in a Nights, and a pair of piss-burn'd shammy Breeches. Nay, your very Badge of Manhood's gone too. Gay. How, Landlady! nay then, i'faith, no wonder if you rail so. Land.
It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and sculk to bed, and let his friends have no sport. Finding him thus jocular, I became quite easy; and when I offered to get up, he very good naturedly said, 'You need be in no such hurry now . I took my host's advice, and drank some brandy, which I found an effectual cure for my head-ach. When I rose, I went into Dr.
It was the general opinion of the British people, my lords, if the general opinion may be collected from the clamours and expectations which every man has had opportunities of observing, that in declaring war upon Spain, we only engaged to chastise the insolence of a nation of helpless savages, who might, indeed, rob and murder a defenceless trader, but who could only hold up their hands and cry out for mercy, or sculk in secret creeks and unfrequented coasts, when ships of war should be fitted out against them.
For he not being of the Quakers persuasion, would perhaps not have so much regard to the point of forbearance, as they had. Broadstreet seeing himself thus in danger began to flinch and to sculk; for some of the old royalists were earnest with the Quakers to prosecute the New England persecutors. It is certainly a most creditable state paper.
Nevertheless, to recur; I cannot but observe, that these tame spirits stand a poor chance in a fairly offensive war with such of us mad fellows as are above all law, and scorn to sculk behind the hypocritical screen of reputation.
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