Sen. Yes; or, on the contrary,

108. (S.)

Finding the broad-mouthed pitcher, which you lift to your lips on the same occasion, so full, that, besides amply satisfying your thirst, it keeps cooling your heated body, and purifying your linen, with the overplus !

109. (T.)

The two-fold torment inflicted by a flea-viz. first, the persecution to which he subjects you through the night; secondly, the loss of your meditated revenge in the morning, by his hocus-pocus escapes-his unthought-of and incredible capers, leaps, and flings, from under your eager fingers, at the very instant when you seem in the act of...... nay, to have actually annihilated him.

"Mille fugit refugitque vias; et vividus "alter "Hæret hians; jam, jamque tenet, similisque tenenti

Increpuit-morsu elusus!"

VIRG.

Sen. O yes!-I am quite at home in that Misery;" intus et in cute novi."-This little Harlequin of the insect-race, seems, like his

brother the biped, to consider his pursuers, as foes, "quos fallere et effugere est triumphus." Ned Tes. But have you nothing to say against a bug, father?-In London, at least, "these Bugs do fear us all!" SHAK.

110. (S.)

Getting out of bed in the morning, after having had far too much sleep.

Tes. To which I beg leave to " move as an amendment"-or far too little.

111. (S.)

After tossing through a restless night, in sickness, sinking at last into a doze, from which you instantly start broad awake, with the joy of thinking that you are falling asleep.

112. (T.)

At a strange house-jumping into a bed which you expect, and have desired, may be very hard; and instantly finding yourself buried in a valley of pap, between two mountains of feathers :—the night a dog-night.

113. (T.)

Scylla, or Charybdis-sleeping in damp sheets, or between the blankets.

114. (S.)

The hypochondriacal impression, under which you sometimes fancy, as you lie in bed, that your fingers are, each, as large as a woolsack-legs of the size of church-pillars-pillow bigger than the bed of Ware, &c. &c.—and all this affair seeming to grow worse and worse every moment!

Tes. A plaguy instance of Virgil's "Majorque videri !" I must own.

115. (S.)

To be startled from your slumbers, all night long, by your windows, as they bang and thump, by fits, in the wind; the floors and wainscoat of your chamber, too, occasionally stretching and cracking like a ship, &c. &c.-till, at last, if you have any nerves, you go mad.

116. (T.)

The shrill, tiny buzz, or whizz, of gnats about your eyes, nose, and ears, through a sultry night.

Sen. If I were a joker like you, Mr Testy, I might suggest that the little imps, provoking as they may be, at least prevent you from over-sleeping yourself! ·

117. (S.)

Finding that you have far-very far-very far indeed-from enough bed-clothes, as you get into bed, in a brandy-freezing night :-House-maids all dead asleep hours ago.

118. (S.)

Being driven from one corner of the bed to another by the sharp points of feathers, which stand up to receive you, on whichever side you turn :

Ned Tes.

Sen.

« Omne tulit punctum ?”

HOR.

"Restless he toss'd and tumbled, to and fro, And roll'd, and wriggled farther off, for woe !"

119. (T.)

DRYD. Wife of Bath.

Waking with the pain of finding that you are

doing your best to bite your own tongue off.

120. (T.)

The sheet untucked, or too short, so as to bring the legs into close intimacy with the blanket.

121. (T.)

Being serenaded at your window, all night long, by the tender war-whoop of two cats, performed with all their demoniacal variations.

122. (T.)

Breaking the strings of your last night-cap,yes, Mrs T. your last night-cap,-in tying it on.

123. (T.)

On going early to bed, with a violent fit of the ague, and entering your chamber in full expectation of finding the coast clear-finding, on the contrary, the bed not turned down, and a gauche Dawdle just beginning to introduce the warming-pan between the sheets.

124. (S.)

While confined to your bed by sickness-the humours of a hired Nurse; who, among other attractions, likes" a drap of comfort"-leaves your door wide open-stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat-slops you as you lie, with scalding