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tb get out of bed ; when I found myfelf ftill 

 heavy and inclined to deep, with a laffitude 

 and numbnefs in my limbs, fo that I could 

 fcarce ftand. Being thus incapable to go a- 

 bout bufinefs, I refolved to ride out on horfe- 

 b,ack ; and having mounted with fome diffi- 

 culty,, found my head very giddy, and had. 

 much ado to keep myfelf from falling afleep., 

 After having rode three hours, I returned' 

 home much in the lame lituation, and was' 

 furprized to find two apprentices with. the", 

 ferhe. cottplaints I had myfelf : they could 

 ^gn nQ\eaufe of their being fo affefted, nor 

 had they eat any thing but their ufual food, 

 except the curd of which I had got the wh^y. 

 Being led by this to fufpedt fomething un- 

 common in the wine with which the poffet 

 was made j I called for it, and had a bottle 

 brought me containing 'vimi?n benediBumy 

 which had been made about a month before j 

 and the bottle having been put in an impro- 

 per place, was the reafon of its having been, 

 miftaken for Lijbon. I found I had drank 

 in my whey about a gill and a half of this e- 

 metic wine, and was furprized it had not vo- 

 mited me ftrongly. Thinking, however, that 

 the finely attenuated particles of the antimony 



might 



