As he was departing I heard him salute a spirit by the name of
Mr. Julian the apostate. This exceedingly amazed me; for I had
concluded that no man ever had a better title to the bottomless
pit than he. But I soon found that this same Julian the apostate
was also the very individual archbishop Latimer. He told me that
several lies had been raised on him in his former capacity, nor
was he so bad a man as he had been represented. However, he had
been denied admittance, and forced to undergo several subsequent
pilgrimages on earth, and to act in the different characters of a
slave, a Jew, a general, an heir, a carpenter, a beau, a monk, a
fiddler, a wise man, a king, a fool, a beggar, a prince, a
statesman, a soldier, a tailor, an alderman, a poet, a knight, a
dancing-master, and three times a bishop, before his martyrdom,
which, together with his other behavior in this last character,
satisfied the judge, and procured him a passage to the blessed
regions.

I told him such various characters must have produced incidents
extremely entertaining; and if he remembered all, as I supposed
he did, and had leisure, I should be obliged to him for the
recital. He answered he perfectly recollected every
circumstance; and as to leisure, the only business of that happy
place was to contribute to the happiness of each other. He
therefore thanked me for adding to his, in proposing to him a
method of increasing mine. I then took my little darling in one
hand, and my favorite fellow-traveler in the other, and, going
with him to a sunny bank of flowers, we all sat down, and he
began as follows:-- "I suppose you are sufficiently acquainted
with my story during the time I acted the part of the emperor
Julian, though I assure you all which hath been related of me is