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 44 Prayers and Meditations.

this may be such a sudden relief as I once had by a good night's rest in Fetter lane x.

The shortness of the time which the common order of nature allows me to expect is very frequently upon my mind. God grant that it may profit me.

69.

Ait-gust 17.

From that time, by abstinence, I have had more ease. I have read five books of Homer 2, and hope to end the sixth to-night. I have given Mrs. Le Clerc [?] a guinea.

By abstinence from wine and suppers I obtained sudden and great relief, and had freedom of mind restored to me, which I have wanted for all this year, without being able to find any means of obtaining it.

70.

August 17, 1767.

I am now about to receive with my old friend Kitty Chambers 3 the sacrament, preparatory to her death. Grant,

God, that it may fit me. I purpose temperance for my resolution. O God, enable me to keep my purpose to thy glory.

5.32 p.m. I have communicated with Kitty, and kissed her.

1 was for some time distracted but at last more composed. I commended my friends and Kitty. Lucy and I were much affected. Kitty is, I think, going to heaven.

��t, under April 6, 1777, for a sort of contest between our chair-

two other good nights. He lodged men and some persons who were

in Fetter Lane some time between coming up Fleet Street, whether they

1 741 and 1749. Life, Hi. 406 n. Lord should first pass Fleet Street, or we

Eldon, writing of the year 1766, when in our chair first get out of Fleet

he came from Newcastle to London Street into Fetter Lane. In the

on his way to Oxford, says ' my struggle the sedan-chair was overset

brother, now Lord Stowell, met me with us in it.' Twiss's Life of Eldon,

at the White Horse in Fetter Lane, ed. 1846, i. 39.

Holborn, then the great Oxford 2 He never read the Odyssey

house, as I was told. He took me through in the original. Windham's

to see the play at Drury Lane. When Diary, p. 17.

we came out of the house it rained 3 His mother's servant. Johnson

hard. There were then few hackney had allowed her to stay on in his

coaches, and we got both into one house at Lichfield. Letters, i. 76,

sedan-chair. Turning out of Fleet 82-6, 125. Street into Fetter Lane there was

O God,

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