72 Comments on Sterne. 
« or three nights together had put him by his reft: 
*¢ which, in his firft tranfport of —— againft 
‘ it, he begins thus: 
« A Devil ’tis—and mifchief fuch doth work, 
“¢ As never yet did Pagan, Jew, or Turk.” 
This choice couplet is quoted by Burton* from 
fome bad Poet, now unknown, of whofe name he 
only gives the initials. 
_ Hilarion the hermit, in fpeaking of his abfti- 
“ nence, his watchings, flagellations, and other 
«« inftrumental parts of his religion,—would fay— 
* tho’ with more facetioufnefs than became an 
«« hermit—That they were the mearis he ufed, to 
make his afs (meaning his body) leave off kick- 
Witte! 
“« By this means Hilarion made his Afs, as he calld 
his own body, leave kicking (fo Hierome relates of him 
in his life) when the Devil tempted him to any foul 
offence.” t 
‘© T wifh, Yorick, faid my father, you had read 
“« Plato; for there you would have learnt that there 
* are two Loves— -+- of thefe Loves, according 
“ to Ficinus’s comment upon Velafius, the one is 
“« yational—the other is natural—the firft ancient— 
“ without 
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* Page 331. 
+ Tr. Shandy, vol. viii. chap. 31. 
{ Burton, p. 333- 
