The Gratifications of her Palate were easily preferred to those of her Vanity; and sometimes a Partridge or a Quail, a Wheat-Ear or the Pestle of a Lark, were chearfully purchased; nay, I could be contented tho I were to feed her with green Pease in April, or Cherries in May.

Homer indeed represents Sleep as a Person, and ascribes a short Part to him in his Iliad, but we must consider that tho we now regard such a Person as entirely shadowy and unsubstantial, the Heathens made Statues of him, placed him in their Temples, and looked upon him as a real Deity.

What tho thou art ever so gloomy now, canst thou forget that happy morning, when in the house of God thy voice was loud, almost as a seraph's voice, in praise?

It proved all true tho', as she'd mumbled For on a day the varlets stumbled On a green spotsit linguae fides 'Tis Suidas tells itwhere Alcides Secure, as fearing no ill neighbour, Lay fast asleep after a "Labour.

" "The rest of ye ministers gave their approbation to ye sum of what is ... above written tho this could not be drawen up before their departure.

The written gospel varies not, and if it be but simply and plainly proposed tho to some it be proposed with more advantage, to some with less, still we have the same things immediately relating to our peace extant before our eyes ...

For a little while when He had departed from the sight of men, that faith might be established in their hearts, whosoever believed, believed tho they saw Him not, and great has been the merit of their faith; for the procuring of which faith they brought only the movement of a pious heart, and not the touching of their hands. III.