The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

-- -'Twas nothing, -- I did not lose two drops of blood by it -- -- -- -'twas not worth calling in a surgeon, had he lived next door to us -- -- -thousands suffer by choice, what I did by accident.

-- -- -Doctor Slop made ten times more of it, than there was occasion: -- -- -some men rise, by the art of hanging great weights upon small wires, -- and I am this day (August the 10th, 1761) paying part of the price of this man's reputation.