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`` Now and then , sir ; and in the liberties and purlieus thereof with a proclivity that would astonish you ; which , since I can not hinder it , I sanctify . My name is Figg , sir -- Jonathan Figg ; and my office , Chaplain of the Fleet . '' `` And if it please you , sir , '' I put in , `` my father has sent me in search of you , to beg that you will come to him at once . '' `` And you have heard me say , young sir , that I marry no man after stroke of noon ; no , nor will visit him sick unless he be in _ articulo mortis _ . '' `` But my father neither wants to be married , sir , nor is he sick at all . I believe it is some matter of witnessing an oath . '' `` Hath he better than roast duck and green peas to offer , hey ?