" Mr. Morgan
assumed a look of gravity and importance at this interrogation,
and, screwing up his mouth, answered, "Mr. Rantum, my good sir, I
believe, upon my conscience and salfation, is my very goot frient
and well-wisher; and he and I have been companions and messmates
and fellow-sufferers, look you; but nevertheless, for all that,
peradventure he hath not pehaved with so much complaisance and
affability and respect as I might have expected from him; pecause
he hath revealed and tivulged and buplished our private affairs,
without my knowledge and privity and consent; but as Got is my
Safiour, I think he had no evil intention in his pelly; and though
there be certain persons, look you, who, as I am told, take upon
them to laugh at his descriptions of my person, deportment, and
conversation, I do affirm and maintain, and insist with my heart,
and my plood, and my soul, that those persons are no petter than
ignorant asses, and that they know not how to discern and distinguish
and define true ridicule, or, as Aristotle calls it, the to Geloion,
no more, look you, than a herd of mountain goats; for I will make
pold to observe--and I hope this goot company will be of the same
opinion--that there is nothing said of me in that performance which
is unworthy of a Christian and a shentleman.
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