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 most tritically put together.This is but a flimsy kind of composition; what was in my head when I made it?

N. B. The excellency of this text is, that it will suit any sermon,—and of this sermon,—that it will suit any text.

''For this sermon I shall be hanged,—for I have stolen the greatest part of it. Doctor Paidagunes found me out. Set a thief to catch a thief''.

On the back of half a dozen I find written, So, so, and no more—and upon a couple Moderato; by which, as far as one may gather from Altieri's Italian dictionary,—but mostly from the authority of a piece of green whipcord, which seemed to have been the unravel-