'I'm afraid,' said the Jew, 'that he may say something which will get us into trouble.'
How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys.
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