He thought everybody as plain and sincere as he was.

"Well, neighbours," quoth he, "let's now make an end of all matters, and live peaceably together for the time to come.

If everybody is as well inclined as I, we shall quickly come to the upshot of our affair." And so, pointing to Frog to say something, to the great surprise of all the company, Frog was seized with a dead palsy in the tongue.

John began to ask him some plain questions, and whooped and hallooed in his ear: "Let's come to the point.Nic., who wouldst thou have to be Lord Strutt?
Wouldst thou have Philip Baboon ?" Nic.

shook his head, and said nothing.
"Wilt thou, then, have Esquire South to be Lord Strutt ?" Nic.