.

I have burnt my

Roman

—as I did the first scenes and sketch of my comedy—and, for aught I see, the pleasure of burning is quite as great as that of printing. These two last would not have done. I ran into

realities

more than ever; and some would have been recognised and others guessed at.

[Redde]

the

Ruminator

—a collection of Essays, by a strange, but able, old man [Sir Egerton Brydges]