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( 20 ) infected with this ſtrange malady. The firſt d one of them ſitting down. entered into the fie of Namur, which laſted till four o clock, the time of parting. The ſecond day a North Brit took poſſeſſion of the diſcourſe, which it w impoſible to get out of his hands ſo long as it company ſtaid together. The third day was e groſſed after the ſame manner by a ſtory of t ſame length. They at laſt began to reflect up this barbarous way of treating one another, an by this means awakened out of that lethar with which each of them had been ſeized ſ ſeveral years.

As you have ſomewhere declared, that extraordinary and uncommon characters of ma kind are the game which you delight in, a as I look upon you to be the greateſt ſportman or, if you pleaſe, the Nimrod among this ſpec of writers, I thought this diſcovery would n be unaceptable to you.

I am yours, &c.

Another Letter.

I AM ſexton of the pariſh of Covent Garden, a complained to you ſome time ago, that I w toiling into prayers at eleven in the mornin crouds of people of quality haſtened to aſſemb at a puppet ſhow on the other ſide of the garde I had at the ſame time a very great diſeſtre for Mr Powell and his little thought eſs commo