39. A Country Parson having divided his Text under two and twenty Heads, one of the Congregation went out of the Church in a great Hurry, and being met by a Friend, he ask'd him, whither he was going? _Home for my Night-Cap_, answered the first, _For I find we are to stay here all Night_. 40. A very modest young Gentleman, of the County of _Tiperary_, having attempted many Ways in vain, to acquire the Affections of a Lady of great Fortune, at last try'd what was to be done, by the Help of Musick, and therefore entertained her with a Serenade under her Window, at Midnight, but she ordered her Servants to drive him thence by throwing _Stones_ at him; _Your Musick, my Friend_, said one of his Companions, is as powerful as that of _Orpheus_, for it draws the very _Stones about you_. 41. A certain Senator, who is not, it may be, esteemed the wisest Man in the House, has a frequent Custom of shaking his Head when another speaks, which giving Offence to a particular Person, he complained of the Affront; but one who had been long acquainted with him, assured the House, it was only an ill Habit he had got, for though he would oftentimes shake his _Head_, there was _nothing_ in it. 42. A Gentleman having lent a Guinea, for two or three Days, to a Person whose Promises he had not much Faith in, was very much surpriz'd to find he very punctually kept his Word with him; the same Gentleman being sometime after desirous of borrowing the like Sum, No, said the other, you have _deceived_ me once, and I am resolved you shan't do it a second Time. 43. My Lord Chief Justice Holt had sent, by his Warrant, one of the _French Prophets_, a foolish Sect, that started up in his Time, to Prison; upon which Mr. _Lacy_, one of their Followers, came one Day to my Lord's House, and desired to speak with him, the Servants told him, he was not well, and saw no Company that Day, but tell him, said _Lacy_, I must see him, for I come to him from the _Lord God_, which being told the Chief Justice, he order'd him to come in, and ask'd him his Business; I come, said he, from the _Lord_, who sent me to thee, and would have thee grant a _Noli Prosequi_ for _John Atkins_, whom thou hast cast into Prison: Thou art a false Prophet, answered my Lord, and a lying Knave, for if the Lord had sent thee it wou'd have been to the _Attorney-General_, he knows it is not in my Power to grant a _Noli-Prosequi_. 44. _Tom B--rn--t_ happening to be at Dinner at my Lord Mayor's, in the latter Part of the late Queen's Reign, after two or three Healths, the Ministry was toasted, but when it came to _Tom_'s turn to drink, he diverted it for some Time by telling a Story to the Person who sat next him; the chief Magistrate of the City not seeing his Toast go round, call'd out, Gentlemen, _where sticks the Ministry_? At nothing, by G--d, says _Tom_, and so drank off his Glass.