XI
I am a Turk if I had not as much forgot my mother, as if Nature had plaistered me up, and set me down naked upon the banks of the river Nile, without one.вБ†вЄЇвБ†Your most obedient servant, MadamвБ†вАФIвАЩve cost you a great deal of trouble,вБ†вАФI wish it may answer;вБ†вАФbut you have left a crack in my back,вБ†вАФand hereвАЩs a great piece fallen off here before,вБ†вАФand what must I do with this foot?вБ†вЄЇвБ†I shall never reach England with it.
For my own part, I never wonder at anything;вБ†вАФand so often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,вБ†вАФat least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as anybody; and when it has slipped us, if a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for it, as for a thing we have both lost, and can neither of us do well without,вБ†вАФIвАЩll go to the worldвАЩs end with him:вБ†вЄЇвБ†But I hate disputes,вБ†вАФand therefore (bating religious points, or such as touch society) I would almost subscribe to anything which does not choke me in the first passage, rather than be drawn into one.вБ†вЄЇвБ†But I cannot bear suffocation,вБ†вЄЇвБ†and bad smells worst of all.вБ†вЄЇвБ†For which reasons, I resolved from the beginning, That if ever the army of martyrs was to be augmented,вБ†вАФor a new one raised,вБ†вАФI would have no hand in it, one way or tвАЩother.