The  night  in  which  I  expected  to  riot  in  the  arms  of
my  beloved  mistress  I  was  obliged  to  take  up  with  a
lodging  on  the  ground,  exposed  to  the  inclemencies
of  a  rigid  frost ;  nor  could  I  obtain  the  least  com-
fort of  sleep,  which  shunned  me  as  its  enemy.  In
short,  the  horrors  of  that  night  are  not  to  be  de-
scribed, or  perhaps  imagined.  They  made  such  an
impression  on  my  soul,  that  I  was  forced  to  be
dipped  three  times  in  the  river  Letae  to  prevent  my
remembering  it  in  the  characters  which  I  afterwards
performed  in  the  flesh."

Here  I  interrupted  Julian  for  the  first  time,  and
told  him  no  such  dipping  had  happened  to  me  in  my
voyage  from  one  world  to  the  other :  but  he  satisfied
me  by  saying  "  that  this  only  happened  to  those
spirits  which  returned  into  the  flesh,  in  order  to  pre-
vent that  reminiscence  which  Plato  mentions,  and
which  would  otherwise  cause  great  confusion  in  the
other  world."

He  then  proceeded  as  follows  :  "  We  continued  a
very  laborious  march  to  Exeter,  which  we  were
ordered  to  besiege.  The  town  soon  surrendered,
and  his  majesty  built  a  castle  there,  which  he  gar-
risoned with  his  Normans,  and  unhappily  I  had  the
misfortune  to  be  one  of  the  number.
