went up and down strutting in Peter's armour, which he had borrowed
to fight Jack {165a}. What remedies were used to cure Martin's
distemper . . .

Here the author being seized with a fit of dulness, to which he is
very subject, after having read a poetical epistle addressed to . .
. it entirely composed his senses, so that he has not writ a line
since.

N.B.--Some things that follow after this are not in the MS., but
seem to have been written since, to fill up the place of what was
not thought convenient then to print.



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