Like to the bee thou everywhere didst roam Spending thy spirits in laborious care, And nightly brought'st thy gathered honey home, As a true workman in so great affair; First of thine own deserving take the fame, Next of thy friend's; his due he gives to thee, That love of learning may renown thy name, And leave it richly to posterity.[2] I have but given freely what freely I have received. This knowledge I owe,—and what indeed is there in my intellectual progress which I do not owe to my ever-beloved friend and teacher, my moral physician? ———his plausive words He scattered not in ears, but grafted them To grow there and to bear.[3] To his alteratives and tonics I am chiefly (under Providence) indebted for that sanity of mind which I enjoy, and that strength,—whatever may be its measure, which I possess. It was his method,—his _way_, he called it; in these days when we dignify every thing, it might be called the Dovean system, or the Columbian, which he would have preferred. [Footnote 2: RESTITUTA.] [Footnote 3: SHAKSPEARE.] CHAPTER CLIX. THE AUTHOR COMPARES HIMSELF AND THE DOCTOR TO CARDINAL WOLSEY AND KING HENRY VIII. AND SUGGESTS SUNDRY SIMILES FOR THE STYLE OF HIS BOOK. I doubt not but some will liken me to the Lover in a modern Comedy, who was combing his peruke and setting his cravat before his mistress; and being asked by her when he intended to begin his court? replied, he had been doing it all this while. DRYDEN. It cannot be necessary for me to remind the benevolent reader, that at those times when a half or a quarter-witted critic might censure me for proceeding egotistically, I am nevertheless carrying on the primary intention with which this work was undertaken, as directly as if the Doctor were the immediate and sole theme of every chapter;— _Non enim excursus hic—sed opus ipsum est._[1] For whatever does not absolutely relate to him is derived directly or indirectly from him; it is directly derivative when I am treating upon subjects which it has been my good fortune to hear him discuss; and indirectly when I am led to consider the topics that incidentally arise, according to the way of thinking in which he trained me to go. [Footnote 1: PLINY.]