CHAPTER VIII

Stay ----I have a small account to settle with the reader before _Trim_ can go on with his harangue. --It shall be done in two minutes.

Amongst many other book-debts, all of which I shall discharge in due time, --I own myself a debtor to the world for two items, --a chapter upon _chamber-maids and button-holes_, which, in the former part of my work, I promised and fully intended to pay off this year: but some of your worships and reverences telling me, that the two subjects, especially so connected together, might endanger the morals of the world, --I pray the chapter upon chamber-maids and button-holes may be forgiven me, --and that they will accept of the last chapter in lieu of it; which is nothing, an’t please your reverences, but a chapter of _chamber-maids, green gowns, and old hats_.

_Trim_ took his off the ground, --put it upon his head, --and then went on with his oration upon death, in manner and form following.

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