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Chapter Twelve |
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Quid has revealed his masterful plan to discover to the world his works in prose and song and is enlarging upon the idea. "Then you think it would be fine to employ some monks for the copying & musical arrangement of my songs - them Illuminating the Manuscript? "Ay" said she "that would be excellent." Then said he "I would have all the writing Engraved instead of Printed & at every other leaf a high finish'd print, all in three volumes folio, & sell them for a hundred pounds a piece. They would Print off two thousand. Then said she "Whoever will not have them will be ignorant fools & will not deserve to live". "Don't you think I have something of the Goat's face?" says he. "Very like a Goat's face" she answered. "I think your face" said he "is like that noble beast the Tyger." "Oh, I was at Mrs Sicknakens & I was speaking of my abilities, but their nasty hearts - poor devils - are eat up with envy--they envy me my abilities & all the women envy your abilities, my dear." "They hate people who are of higher abilities than their nasty filthy selves. But do you outface them & then strangers will see you have an opinion" "Now, I think we should do as much good as we can when we are at Mr Femality's" "Do you snap & take me up." "And I will fall into such a passion, I'll hollow and stamp & frighten all the People there & show them what truth is." At this instant, Obtuse Angle came in, holding still the musical device he had acquired. "Oh, I am glad you are come" said Quid, not glad whatsoever. As the company shook off their dreams, one by one, Quid and Miss Gitipin, accompanied by that original gentleman Obtuse Angle, travelled to the house of Mr Femality, there to discuss whether vellum or hide, Dutch or Spanish paper and the sellers they would engage. In the house of Steelyard the Lawgiver, Suction pleased himself by discovering a spiced foul and the company spoke of luncheon before Sipsop proposed that the surface area of a falling body was inversely proportional to the division of its velocity by the height from which it had fallen. Arodobo sucked his lip. |
