; Somnolentius,
the balm and repose of it, - not forgetting all others as well sleeping as
waking, ecclesiastical as civil, whom for brevity, but out of no resentment to
you, I lump all together. -- Believe me, right worthy,
    My most zealous wish and fervent prayer in your behalf, and in my own too,
in case the thing is not done already for us, -- is, that the great gifts and
endowments both of wit and judgment, with every thing which usually goes along
with them, -- such as memory, fancy, genius, eloquence, quick parts, and what
not, may this precious moment without stint or measure, let or hinderance, be
poured down warm as each of us could bear it, - scum and sediment an all; (for I
would not have a drop lost) into these veral receptacles, cells, cellules,
domiciles, dormitories, refectories, and spare places of our brains, - in such
sort, that they might continue to be injected and tunn'd into, according to the
true intent and meaning of my wish, until every vessel of them, both great and
small, be so replenished, saturated and fill'd up therewith, that no more, would
it save a man's life, could possibly be got either in or out.
    Bless us! - what noble work we should make! -- how should I tickle it off!
-- and what spirits should I find myself in, to be writing away for such
readers! - and you, - just heaven! -- with what raptures would you sit and read,
-- but oh! -- 'tis too much, -- I am sick, -- I faint away deliciously at the
thoughts of it! -- 'tis more than nature can bear! -- lay hold of me, - I am
giddy, - I am stone blind, -- I'm dying, -- I am gone. -- Help! Help! Help! -
But hold, - I grow something better again, for I am beginning to foresee, when
this is over, that as we shall all of us continue to be great wits, - we should
never agree amongst ourselves, one day to an end: -- there would be so much
satire and sarcasm, -- scoffing and flouting, with raillying and reparteeing of
it, -- thrusting and parrying in one corner or another, -- there would be
nothing but mischief amongst us. - Chaste stars! what biting
