In short, by griping usurers, devouring lawyers, and negligent servants I am brought to this pass.
MRS.

BULL .-- This was hard usage.

But methinks the least reflection might have retrieved you.
JOHN BULL.--'Tis true; yet consider my circumstances--my honour was engaged, and I did not know how to get out.

Besides, I was for five years often drunk, always muddled; they carried me from tavern to tavern, to ale-houses and brandy-shops, and brought me acquainted with such strange dogs.

"There goes the prettiest fellow in the world," says one, "for managing a jury: make him yours.