I will now proceed with the Lecture on this degree; it is divided into two sections.
FIRST SECTION.
Question—Are you a Fellow Craft Mason? A. I am; try me.
Q. By what will you be tried? A. By the Square.
Q. Why by the Square? A. Because it is an emblem of virtue.
Q. What is a Square? A. An angle extending to ninety degrees, or the fourth part of a circle.
Q. Where was you prepared to be made a Fellow Craft Mason? A. In a room adjacent to the body of a just and lawfully constituted Lodge of such, duly assembled in a room or place, representing the middle chamber of King Solomon's Temple.
Q. How was you prepared? A. By being divested of all metals; neither naked nor clothed; barefooted nor shod; hoodwinked; with a cable-tow twice 'round my neck; in which situation I was conducted to the door of the Lodge, where I gave two distinct knocks.
Q. What did those two distinct knocks allude to? A. To the second degree in Masonry, it being that on which I was about to enter.