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-- -"I wish, Dr. Slop," quoth my uncle Toby, (repeating his wish for Dr. Slop a second time, and with a degree of more zeal and earnestness in his manner of wishing, than he had wished at first6) -- -- "I wish, Dr. Slop," quoth my uncle Toby, "you had seen what prodigious armies we had in Flanders."
My uncle Toby's wish did Dr. Slop a disservice which his heart never intended any man, -- Sir, it confounded him -- -- -and thereby putting his ideas first into confusion, and then to flight, he could not rally them again for the soul of him.