Was it my case, said _Gastripheres_, as the main thing is the oil and lamp-black, I should spread them thick upon a rag, and clap it on directly.——That would make a very devil of it, replied _Yorick._——And besides, added _Eugenius_, it would not answer the intention, which is the extreme neatness and elegance of the prescription, which the Faculty hold to be half in half;——for consider, if the type is a very small one (which it should be) the sanative particles, which come into contact in this form, have the advantage of being spread so infinitely thin, and with such a mathematical equality (fresh paragraphs and large capitals excepted) as no art or management of the spatula can come up to.——It falls out very luckily, replied _Phutatorius_, that the second edition of my treatise _de Concubinis retinendis_ is at this instant in the press.——You may take any leaf of it, said _Eugenius_——no matter which.——Provided, quoth _Yorick_, there is no bawdry in it.—— They are just now, replied _Phutatorius_, printing off the ninth chapter——which is the last chapter but one in the book.——Pray what is the title of that chapter? said _Yorick;_ making a respectful bow to _Phutatorius_ as he spoke.——I think, answered _Phutatorius_, ’tis that _de re concubinaria._ For Heaven’s sake keep out of that chapter, quoth _Yorick._ ——By all means—added _Eugenius._ C H A P. LXIV —NOW, quoth _Didius_, rising up, and laying his right hand with his fingers spread upon his breast——had such a blunder about a christian-name happened before the Reformation——[It happened the day before yesterday, quoth my uncle _Toby_ to himself]—and when baptism was administer’d in _Latin_—[’Twas all in _English_, said my uncle]——many things might have coincided with it, and upon the authority of sundry decreed cases, to have pronounced the baptism null, with a power of giving the child a new name—Had a priest, for instance, which was no uncommon thing, through ignorance of the _Latin_ tongue, baptized a child of Tom-o’stiles, _in nomine patriæ & filia & spiritum sanctos_—the baptism was held null.——I beg your pardon, replied _Kysarcius_——in that case, as the mistake was only the _terminations_, the baptism was valid——and to have rendered it null, the blunder of the priest should have fallen upon the first syllable of each noun——and not, as in your case, upon the last. My father delighted in subtleties of this kind, and listen’d with infinite attention. _Gastripheres_, for example, continued _Kysarcius_, baptizes a child of _John Stradling_’s in _Gomine_ gatris, &c. &c. instead of _in Nomine patris_, &c.——Is this a baptism? No—say the ablest canonists; in as much as the radix of each word is hereby torn up, and the sense and meaning of them removed and changed quite to another object; for _Gomine_ does not signify a name, nor _gatris_ a father.—What do they signify? said my uncle _Toby_.—Nothing at all——quoth _Yorick._——Ergo, such a baptism is null, said _Kysarcius._——