 hath to the mitre, when he cries Nolo episcopari.« Indeed,
he seemed to express some contempt at the question, and presently turned away.
    A venerable spirit appeared next, whom I found to be the great historian
Livy. Alexander the Great, who was just arrived from the palace of death, past
by him with a frown. The historian, observing it, said, »Ay, you may frown; but
those troops which conquered the base Asiatic slaves would have made no figure
against the Romans.« We then privately lamented the loss of the most valuable
part of his history; after which he took occasion to commend the judicious
collection made by Mr. Hook, which, he said, was infinitely preferable to all
others; and at my mentioning Echard's he gave a bounce, not unlike the going off
of a squib, and was departing from me, when I begged him to satisfy my curiosity
in one point - whether he was really superstitious or no? For I had always
believed he was till Mr. Leibnitz had assured me to the contrary. He answered
sullenly, »Doth Mr. Leibnitz know my mind better than myself?« and then walked
away.
 

                                  Chapter Ten

   The author is surprised at meeting Julian the Apostate in Elysium; but is
 satisfied by him by what means he procured his entrance there. Julian relates
                  his adventures in the character of a slave.

As he was departing I heard him salute a spirit by the name of Mr. Julian the
apostate. This exceedingly amazed me; for I had concluded that no man ever had a
better title to the bottomless pit than he. But I soon found that this same
Julian the apostate was also the very individual archbishop Latimer. He told me
that several lies had been raised on him in his former capacity, nor was he so
bad a man as he had been represented. However, he had been denied admittance,
and forced to undergo several subsequent pilgrimages on earth, and to act in the
different characters of a slave, a Jew, a general, an heir, a carpenter, a beau,
a monk, a fiddler, a wise man, a king, a fool, a beggar, a prince, a statesman,
a soldier, a taylor, an alderman, a poet, a knight, a dancing-master, and three
times a bishop, before his martyrdom, which, together with his other behaviour
in this last character, satisfied the judge, and procured him a passage to the
blessed regions.
    I told him such various characters must have produced incidents extremely
entertaining; and if
