——For nothing can make this chapter go off with spirit but an
apostrophe to thee——but my heart tells me, that in such a crisis an
apostrophe is but an insult in disguise, and ere I would offer one to a
woman in distress—let the chapter go to the devil; provided any damn’d
critic in _keeping_ will be but at the trouble to take it with him.
[45] This must be a mistake in Mr. _Shandy;_ for _Graaf_ wrote upon
the pancreatick juice, and the parts of generation.