| [No. 597] | Wednesday, September 22, 1714 | Byrom |
—Metis sine Pondere ludit—
Petr.
Since I received my Friend
Shadow's
Letter, several of my Correspondents have been pleased to send me an Account how they have been employed in Sleep, and what notable Adventures they have been engaged in during that Moonshine in the Brain. I shall lay before my Readers an Abridgment of some few of their Extravagancies, in hopes that they will in Time accustom themselves to dream a little more to the Purpose.
One who styles himself
Gladio
, complains heavily that his Fair One charges him with Inconstancy, and does not use him with half the Kindness which the Sincerity of his Passion may demand; the said
Gladio