XXXI + 

If anything in this world, which my father said, could have provoked my uncle Toby, during the time he was in love, it was the perverse use my father was always making of an expression of Hilarion the hermit; who, in speaking of his abstinence, his watchings, flagellations, and other instrumental parts of his religionвБ†вАФwould sayвБ†вАФthough with more facetiousness than became an hermitвБ†вАФвАЬThat they were the means he used, to make his ass (meaning his body) leave off kicking.вАЭ + 

It pleased my father well; it was not only a laconick way of expressingвБ†вЄЇвБ†but of libelling, at the same time, the desires and appetites of the lower part of us; so that for many years of my fatherвАЩs life, вАЩtwas his constant mode of expressionвБ†вАФhe never used the word passions onceвБ†вАФbut ass always instead of themвБ†вЄЇвБ†So that he might be said truly, to have been upon the bones, or the back of his own ass, or else of some other manвАЩs, during all that time. + 

I must here observe to you the difference betwixt + 

My fatherвАЩs ass + 

and my hobbyhorseвБ†вАФin order to keep characters as separate as may be, in our fancies as we go along. + 

For my hobbyhorse, if you recollect a little, is no way a vicious beast; he has scarce one hair or lineament of the ass about himвБ†вЄЇвАЩTis the sporting little filly-folly which carries you out for the present hourвБ†вАФa maggot, a butterfly, a picture, a fiddlestickвБ†вАФan uncle TobyвАЩs siegeвБ†вАФor an anything, which a man makes a shift to get astride on, to canter it away from the cares and solicitudes of lifeвБ†вАФвАЩTis as useful a beast as is in the whole creationвБ†вАФnor do I really see how the world would do without itвБ†вЄЇвБ† + 

вЄЇвБ†But for my fatherвАЩs assвБ†вЄїoh! mount himвБ†вАФmount himвБ†вАФmount himвБ†вАФ(thatвАЩs three times, is it not?)вБ†вАФmount him not:вБ†вАФвАЩtis a beast concupiscentвБ†вАФand foul befall the man, who does not hinder him from kicking. + 