made a very distinguishing appearance. While my eyes were fixed

on that monarch a very small spirit came up to me, shook me
heartily by the hand, and told me his name was THOMAS THUMB. I

expressed great satisfaction in seeing him, nor could I help
speaking my resentment against the historian, who had done such

injustice to the stature of this great little man, which he
represented to be no bigger than a span, whereas I plainly

perceived at first sight he was full a foot and a half (and the
37th part of an inch more, as he himself informed me), being

indeed little shorter than some considerable beaux of the present
age. I asked this little hero concerning the truth of those

stories related of him, viz., of the pudding, and the cow's
belly. As to the former, he said it was a ridiculous legend,

worthy to be laughed at; but as to the latter, he could not help
owning there was some truth in it: nor had he any reason to be

ashamed of it, as he was swallowed by surprise; adding, with
great fierceness, that if he had had any weapon in his hand the

cow should have as soon swallowed the devil.
He spoke the last word with so much fury, and seemed so

confounded, that, perceiving the effect it had on him, I
immediately waived the story, and, passing to other matters, we

had much conversation touching giants. He said, so far from
killing any, he had never seen one alive; that he believed those

actions were by mistake recorded of him, instead of Jack the
giant-killer, whom he knew very well, and who had, he fancied,

extirpated the race. I assured him to the contrary, and told him
I had myself seen a huge tame giant, who very complacently stayed

in London a whole winter, at the special request of several
gentlemen and ladies; though the affairs of his family called him

home to Sweden.
I now beheld a stern-looking spirit leaning on the shoulder of

another spirit, and presently discerned the former to be Oliver
Cromwell, and the latter Charles Martel. I own I was a little

surprised at seeing Cromwell here, for I had been taught by my
grandmother that he was carried away by the devil himself in a

tempest; but he assured me, on his honor, there was not the least
truth in that story. However, he confessed he had narrowly

escaped the bottomless pit; and, if the former part of his
conduct had not been more to his honor than the latter, he had

been certainly soused into it. He was, nevertheless, sent back
to the upper world with this lot:--ARMY, CAVALIER, DISTRESS.

He was born, for the second time, the day of Charles II's
restoration, into a family which had lost a very considerable

fortune in the service of that prince and his father, for which
they received the reward very often conferred by princes on real

merit, viz.--000. At 16 his father bought a small commission for
him in the army, in which he served without any promotion all the

reigns of Charles II and of his brother. At the Revolution he
quitted his regiment, and followed the fortunes of his former

master, and was in his service dangerously wounded at the famous
battle of the Boyne, where he fought in the capacity of a private

soldier. He recovered of this wound, and retired after the
unfortunate king to Paris, where he was reduced to support a wife

and seven children (for his lot had horns in it) by cleaning
shoes and snuffing candles at the opera. In which situation,

after he had spent a few miserable years, he died half-starved
and broken-hearted. He then revisited Minos, who,

compassionating his sufferings by means of that family, to whom
he had been in his former capacity so bitter an enemy, suffered

him to enter here.
My curiosity would not refrain asking him one question, i. e.,

whether in reality he had any desire to obtain the crown? He
smiled, and said, "No more than an ecclesiastic hath to the

miter, when he cries Nolo episcopari." Indeed, he seemed to
express some contempt at the question, and presently turned away.

A venerable spirit appeared next, whom I found to be the great
historian Livy. Alexander the Great, who was just arrived from

the palace of death, passed by him with a frown. The historian,
observing it, said, "Ay, you may frown; but those troops which

conquered the base Asiatic slaves would have made no figure
against the Romans." We then privately lamented the loss of the

most valuable part of his history; after which he took occasion
to commend the judiciouscollection made by Mr. Hook, which, he

said, was infinitely preferable to all others; and at my
mentioning Echard's he gave a bounce, not unlike the going off of

a squib, and was departing from me, when I begged him to satisfy
my curiosity in one point--whether he was really superstitious or

no? For I had always believed he was till Mr. Leibnitz had
assured me to the contrary. He answered sullenly, "Doth Mr.

Leibnitz know my mind better than myself?" and then walked away.
CHAPTER X

The author is surprised at meeting Julian the apostate in
Elysium; but is satisfied by him by what means he procured his

entrance there. Julian relates his adventures in the character
of a slave.

As he was departing I heard him salute a spirit by the name of
Mr. Julian the apostate. This exceedingly amazed me; for I had

concluded that no man ever had a better title to the bottomless
pit than he. But I soon found that this same Julian the apostate

was also the very individual bishop" target="_blank" title="n.大主教">archbishop Latimer. He told me that
several lies had been raised on him in his former capacity, nor

was he so bad a man as he had been represented. However, he had
been denied admittance, and forced to undergo several 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 delicatetenderness 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 jealouscomplexion to have withheld
me from her, namely, for that I was young and handsome.

"Matters succeeded so far according to my wish, and the sequel
answered those hopes which this beginning had raised. I soon

perceived my service was very acceptable to her; I often met her
eyes, nor did she withdraw them without a confusion which is

scarce consistent with entire purity of heart. Indeed, she gave
me every day fresh encouragement; but the unhappy distance which

circumstances had placed between us deterred me long from making
any direct attack; and she was too strict an observer of decorum

to violate the severe rules of modesty by advancing first; but
passion at last got the better of my respect, and I resolved to

make one bold attempt, whatever was the consequence.