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FTER such a Day as Yesterday, I might well have thought it hard, when I awak'd the next Morning, to find my-self under positive Engagements of proceeding in the same philosophical way, without intermission, and upon harder terms than ever. For 'twas no longer the agreeable Part of a Companion which I had now to bear. Your Conversation,, which had hitherto supported me, was at an end. I was now alone; confin'd to my Closet; oblig'd to meditate by my-self; and reduc'd to the hard Circumstances of an Author, and Historian, in the most difficult Subject.

here, methought, propitious Heaven, in some manner, assisted me. For if Dreams were, as teaches, sent from the Throne Rh