 dozen of So, so, tied fast
together in one bundle by themselves, - one may safely suppose he meant pretty
near the same thing.
    There is but one difficulty in the way of this conjecture, which is this,
that the moderato's are five times better than the so, so's; - shew ten times
more knowledge of the human heart; - have seventy times more wit and spirit in
them; - (and, to rise properly in my climax) - discover a thousand times more
genius; - and to crown all, are infinitely more entertaining than those tied up
with them; - for which reason, whene'er Yorick's dramatic sermons are offered to
the world, though I shall admit but one out of the whole number of the so, so's,
I shall, nevertheless, adventure to print the two moderato's without any sort of
scruple.
    What Yorick could mean by the words lentamente, - tenutè, - grave, - and
sometimes adagio, - as applied to theological compositions, and with which he
has characterized some of these sermons, I dare not venture to guess. -- I am
more puzzled still upon finding a l'octava alta! upon one; -- Con strepito upon
the back of another; -- Scicilliana upon a third; -- Alla capella upon a fourth;
-- Con l'arco upon this; -- Senza l'arco upon that. -- All I know is, that they
are musical terms, and have a meaning; -- and as he was a musical man, I will
make no doubt, but that by some quaint application of such metaphors to the
compositions in hand, they impressed very distinct ideas of their several
characters upon his fancy, - whatever they may do upon that of others.
    Amongst these, there is that particular sermon which has unaccountably led
me into this digression -- The funeral sermon upon poor Le Fever, wrote out very
fairly, as if from a hasty copy. - I take notice of it the more, because it
seems to have been his favourite composition -- It is upon mortality; and is
tied length-ways and cross-ways with a yarn thrum, and then rolled up and
twisted round with a half sheet of dirty blue paper, which seems to have been
once the cast cover of a general review, which to this day smells horribly of
horse-drugs. -- Whether these marks of humiliation were designed, - I something
doubt; -- because at the end of the sermon, (and
