280 ESSAYS ANp OBSERVATIONS 
when I found myfelf ftill heavy and in- 
clined to fleep, with a laflitude and numb- 
ne{s in my limbs, fo that I could fearce 
ftand. Being thus incapable to go about 
bufinefs, I refolved to ride out on horfe- 
‘ back; and, having mounted with fome dif- 
ficulty, found my head very giddy, and 
had much ado to keep myfelf from fall- 
ing afleep. After having rode three hours, 
I returned home much in the fame fitua- 
. tion, and was furprized to find two ap* 
prentices with the fame complaints I had 
myfelf: They could aflfign no caufe of 
their being fo affected, nor had they eat 
any thing but their ufual food, except the 
curd of which I had got the whey. Being 
led by this to fufpect fomething uncom- 
mon in the wine with which the poffet: 
was made, I called for it; and had a bot- 
tle brought me containing vinum benedic- 
zum, which had been made about a month , 
before ; and the bottle having been put 
in an improper place, was the reafon of 
its having been miftaken for Lifbon, I 
found | had drank in my whey about 2 
gill and a half of this emetic wine, and 
was 
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