{7} Wretches that swear to affidavits upon all occasions, without
knowing the contents, or the person they are exhibited against.
{31} Sheriffs officers, MERELY from their being SUCH, are excepted in
the formation of all neighbourly communities.
{39} Aristotle and Elian relate, that a dog loses the faculty of barking
when he opens; that he imitates the speech of a human being for the
purpose of gaining admittance into their houses to devour them.
{40} The lady who occasionally officiates as wife, bawd, priestess, or
any thing most convenient, often serenades him with a rehearsal of his
elegy, insisting on't he must be hanged.