[The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb]@TWC D-Link bookThe Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR 9/217
Did not Clementina Falconbridge, the romantic Clementina Falconbridge, fancy Tommy Potts? and Rosabella Sweetlips sacrifice her mellifluous appellative to Jack Deady? Matilda her cousin married a Gubbins, and her sister Amelia a Clutterbuck. _Mr.H._ Potts is tolerable, Deady is sufferable, Gubbins is bearable, and Clutterbuck is endurable, but Ho---- _Belvil._ Hush, Jack, don't betray yourself.
But you are really ashamed of the family-name? _Mr.H._ Ay, and of my father that begot me, and my father's father, and all their forefathers that have borne it since the Conquest. _Belvil_.
But how do you know the women are so squeamish? _Mr.H_.I have tried them.
I tell you there is neither maiden of sixteen nor widow of sixty but would turn up their noses at it.
I have been refused by nineteen virgins, twenty-nine relicts, and two old maids. _Belvil_.
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