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THe yester-dayes diversions which led us out of the path of our principal discourse, were such and so many, that I know not how I can without your assistance recover the track in which I am to proceed.

I wonder not, that you, who have your fancy charged and laden with both what hath been, and is to be spoken, do find your self in some confusion; but I, who as being onely an Auditor, have nothing to burthen my memory withal, but such things as I have heard, may haply by a succinct rehearsal of them, recover the first thred of our Discourse. As far therefore as my memory serves me, the sum of yester-dayes conferences were an examination of the Prin-