102 TRAVELS IN 
for a Bartholomew frolic, (lamps on it fuch 
affecting marks of fimplicity, goodnefa, and. 
fincerity, that even to this momcat it excites in 
my mind the tendered emotions. The gown 
itfelf is of no value : bat the ideas it revives are 
touching. The hand from which I received 
it is fo dear to me, that now, after ten years 
have elapfed, I cannot conteraplate without 
pleafure the remains of a garment, which I 
made a point of wearing to the laft thread as 
foon as I became more fettled. The moft beau- 
tiful relic of antiquity would not haye been 
more religioufly preferved, 
I threw myfelf into the arms of my friend 
with tears in my eyes, and I felt his alfo 
moiilen my cheek. His houfe, where every 
thing was in motion, was an afre61:ing fpedacle : 
It refembled the hurry of a removal upon the 
approach of robbers. The abandonment of 
places to \yhich w^e have been fo ftrongly at- 
tached, and in which we have tafted the trueft 
and mpft innocent enjoyments, has in it, to 
minds of feeling, fomething that is dreary and 
difconfolate. The habitationof my friend fhared 
a little in the regrets that I fek for the mailer ; 
.^n article of furniture, the fimpleft things that 
he 
