walk for an Hour together in his Chamber, and industriously treading, at every Step, upon every other Board in the Flooring.
Every Reader will recollect several Instances of this Nature without my Assistance. I
it was
Gregorio Leti
who had published as many Books as he was Years old
; which was a Rule he had laid down and punctually observed to the Year of his Death. It was, perhaps, a Thought of the like Nature which determined
Homer
himself to divide each of his Poems into as many Books, as there are Letters in the