On the back of half a dozen I find written, So, so, and no more——and upon a couple _Moderato;_ by which, as far as one may gather from _Altieri’s Italian_ dictionary,—but mostly from the authority of a piece of green whipcord, which seemed to have been the unravelling of _Yorick_’s whip-lash, with which he has left us the two sermons marked _Moderato_, and the half 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;—show ten times more knowledge of the human heart;—have seventy times more wit and spirit in them;—(and, to rise properly in my climax)—discovered 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 characterised 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 not at the beginning of it)—very different from his way of treating the rest, he had wrote—— Bravo!