Toby, taking the advantage of a minim
in the second bar of his tune, kept whistling one continued note to the
end of the sentence.--Dr. Slop, with his division of curses moving under
him, like a running bass all the way.) 'May he be cursed in eating and
drinking, in being hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting, in sleeping, in
slumbering, in walking, in standing, in sitting, in lying, in working,
in resting, in pissing, in shitting, and in blood-letting!

'May he' (Obadiah) 'be cursed in all the faculties of his body!

'May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly!--May he be cursed in the hair
of his head!--May he be cursed in his brains, and in his vertex,' (that
is a sad curse, quoth my father) 'in his temples, in his forehead, in
his ears, in his eye-brows, in his cheeks, in his jaw-bones, in his
nostrils, in his fore-teeth and grinders, in his lips, in his throat, in
his shoulders, in his wrists, in his arms, in his hands, in his fingers!

'May he be damn'd in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart and
purtenance, down to the very stomach!

'May he be cursed in his reins, and in his groin,' (God in heaven
forbid! quoth my uncle Toby) 'in his thighs, in his genitals,' (my
father shook his head) 'and in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and
feet, and toe-nails!

'May he be cursed in all the joints and articulations of the members,
from the top of his head to the sole of his foot! May there be no
soundness in him!

'May the son of the living God, with all the glory of his
Majesty'--(Here my uncle Toby, throwing back his head, gave a monstrous,
long, loud Whew--w--w--something betwixt the interjectional whistle of
Hay-day! and the word itself.)--

--By the golden beard of Jupiter--and of Juno (if her majesty wore one)
and by the beards of the rest of your heathen worships, which by the bye
was no small number, since what with the beards of your celestial gods,
and gods aerial and aquatick--to say nothing of the beards of town-gods
and country-gods, or of the celestial goddesses your wives, or of the
infernal goddesses your whores and concubines (that is in case they wore
them)--all which beards, as Varro tells me, upon his word and honour,
when mustered up together, made no less than thirty thousand effective
beards upon the Pagan establishment;--every beard of which claimed the
rights and privileges of being stroken and sworn by--by all these beards
together then--I vow and protest, that of the two bad cassocks I