XI

These short characters of his sermons were always written, excepting in this one instance, upon the first leaf of his sermon, which served as a cover to it; and usually upon the inside of it, which was turned towards the text;⁠—but at the end of his discourse, where, perhaps, he had five or six pages, and sometimes, perhaps, a whole score to turn himself in,⁠—he took a large circuit, and, indeed, a much more mettlesome one;⁠—as if he had snatched the occasion of unlacing himself with a few more frolicksome strokes at vice, than the straitness of the pulpit allowed.⁠—These, though hussar-like, they skirmish lightly and out of all order, are still auxiliaries on the side of virtue;⁠—tell me then, Mynheer Vander Blonederdondergewdenstronke, why they should not be printed together?