[…] I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation; I thought it best to change the topic.

Kemble, a black-letter man!

We sometimes perform an operation on the under lip … in consequence of / Cancer Labii [cancer of the lips], / Which disease generally arises from the use of a pipe, and the manner in which it happens is this:—the adhesive nature of the clay of which the pipe is made, causes it to adhere to the lip; at length the cuticle becomes torn off, and the continued irritation frets the sore into true cancerous disease.

Let us suppresse this over-weening [translating cuider], the first foundation of the tyrannie of the wicked spirit[…].