morning, may be of singular use. Go to bed early, and rise betimes. If you live up to these directions, I do not doubt but you’ll be your own man again in a little time. Having no farther interest in all this than only effecting your cure, I persuade my self you will be so much your own friend as to follow the advice of _Your humble Servant_, Q. Z. LETTER III. _SIR_, Since you were so wonderfully kind in your last letter, as out of your great liberality to honour me with some of your own directions, I am resolv’d not to be behind-hand with you in point of courtesy, and therefore recommend the following rules to your consideration. In the first place, I crave leave to inform you, that syllogisms and sophistry pay no debts; That as old birds are not to be caught with chaff, so a lawyer is not to be imposed upon by thin frothy arguments; and that _Aristotle_, let him make never so great a figure in the schools, has no manner of authority in _Westminster-hall_, where I can assure you they won’t take his _ipse dixit_ for a groat. Secondly, I would advise you not to have so great an opinion of your own parts, as to despise the rest of the world, and think to palm any of your little banters upon them. ’Tis enough in all conscience, I think, that you take the liberty to dumfound us with your _Fathers_ and _Councils_ in the pulpit, which we of the laity are forced to take upon content; and therefore you may spare them elsewhere. Thirdly, and lastly, When you run in any one’s debt, ’tis my counsel, and I give it you for nothing, that you would take care to see the party satisfy’d in good current money, for fear a wicked _Moabite_ should compel you to it, which, between friends, will not be much for your reputation. As this is the last letter you are like to receive from me, I make it once more my request to you to observe the contents of it: for I am not at leisure to trifle any longer with you: otherwise a stone-doublet is the word, and wars must ensue, which every good christian ought to prevent, if it lies in his power. I am, unless you give me further provocation, _Your Humble Servant_, W. H. P. S. _Your old friend the widow, is sorry to hear you have made so familiar with her, as to call her being in question; as likewise that of her_ Griffin _and_ Red Lion. _As for your love, having no occasion for it at present, she desires you to bestow it elsewhere; but is resolv’d, notwithstanding all your learned quirks and quiddities, to get her five pounds again; and when she has it in her pocket, for your sake she’ll never trust it with a logician, that would_ ergo _her out of what is her own_. ANSWER IV.