This theory found as little favour with Sennertus as that of Guainerius, because he says, Huarte assumes more than can be granted; and moreover because he supposes that the Latin language has a peculiar consonance with the rational soul, and that there are certain natures which are peculiarly constituted for inventing languages. And therefore if by disease that temperament be excited in the brain which is necessary for the invention of any most elegant language the patient would fall into the Latin tongue; and Latin words would occur to him, without any deliberation, or act of will on his part. This opinion Sennertus argued cannot be maintained as probable, being indeed disproved by the very cases upon which the question had been raised, for Greek and Hebrew had been spoken by some of the patients, as well as Latin. The facts he admits as not to be doubted, because they are related by veracious authors; and his way of accounting for them is by the agency of evil spirits, who take advantage of bodily diseases and act upon them, especially such as arise from melancholy; for that humour or passion has such attractions for evil spirits that it has been called _Balneum Diaboli_, the Devil's Bath. When therefore a patient speaks in tongues which he has never learnt, _eo ipso Dæmon se manifeste prodit_. This opinion than which one of greater weight could not have been produced in the 17th century, is recommended to the serious consideration of the Irvingites. The Doctor would have sung Fa-la-la-lerridan to all this reasoning, and I say Aballiboo! CHAPTER CL. THE WEDDING PEAL AT ST. GEORGE'S, AND THE BRIDE'S APPEARANCE AT CHURCH. See how I have strayed! and you'll not wonder when you reflect on the whence and the whither. ALEXANDER KNOX. Well dear Reader, I have answered your question concerning the great Decasyllabon. I have answered it fairly and explicitly, not like those Jesuitical casuists That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. You have received an answer as full and satisfactory as you could expect or desire, and yet the more than cabalistic mysteries of the word are still concealed with Eleusinean secresy. Enough of this. For the present also we will drop the subject which was broken off by the extraordinary circumstances that called forth our Chapter Extraordinary. _τὸ δε και τετελεσμένον ἔσται_,[1]