eral subsequent pilgrimages on earth, and to act in the
different characters of a slave, a Jew, a general, an heir, a carpenter,
a beau, a monk, a fiddler, a wise man, a king, a fool, a beggar, a
prince, a statesman, a soldier, a tailor, an alderman, a poet, a knight,
a dancing-master, and three times a bishop, before his martyrdom, which,
together with his other behavior in this last character, satisfied the
judge, and procured him a passage to the blessed regions.

I told him such various characters must have produced incidents
extremely entertaining; and if he remembered all, as I supposed he did,
and had leisure, I should be obliged to him for the recital. He answered
he perfectly recollected every circumstance; and as to leisure, the only
business of that happy place was to contribute to the happiness of each
other. He therefore thanked me for adding to his, in proposing to him
a method of increasing mine. I then took my little darling in one hand,
and my favorite fellow-traveler in the other, and, going with him to
a sunny bank of flowers, we all sat down, and he began as follows:--"I
suppose you are sufficiently acquainted with my story during the time I
acted the part of the emperor Julian, though I assure you all which hath
been related of me is not true, particularly with regard to the many
prodigies forerunning my death. However, they are now very little worth
disputing; and if they can serve any purpose of the historian they
are extremely at his service. My next entrance into the world was at
Laodicea, in Syria, in a Roman family of no great note; and, being of
a roving disposition, I came at the age of seventeen to Constantinople,
where, after about a year's stay, I set out for Thrace, at the time when
the emperor Valens admitted the Goths into that country. I was there so
captivated with the beauty of a Gothic lady, the wife of one Rodoric, a
captain, whose name, out of the most delicate tenderness for her lovely
sex, I shall even at this distance conceal; since her behavior to me was
more consistent with good-nature than with that virtue which women are
obliged to preserve against every assailant. In order to procure an
intimacy with this woman I sold myself a slave to her husband, who,
being of a nation not over-inclined to jealousy, presented me to his
wife, for those very reasons which would have induced one of a jealous
complexion to have withheld me from her, namely, for that I was young
and handsome.