He showed me several books of their devotion, which he had translated into English for the instruction of his wife; he told me that when the Messiah came, all the ships, barks, and vessels of Holland should, by the power of certain strange whirlwinds, be loosed from their anchors, and transported in a moment to all the desolate ports and havens throughout the world, wherever the dispersion was, to convey their brethren and tribes to the Holy City; with other such-like stuff.

He was a merry drunken fellow, but would by no means handle any money (for something I purchased of him), it being Saturday; but desired me to leave it in the window, meaning to receive it on Sunday morning." In an old book-shop at Leyden I bought from an odd lot of English books, chiefly minor fiction for travellers, the _Colloquia Peripatetica_ of John Duncan, LL.D., Professor of Hebrew in the New College, Edinburgh.

"I'm first a Christian, next a Catholic, then a Calvinist, fourth a Paedo-baptist, and fifth a Presbyterian.

I cannot reverse the order," is one of his emphatic utterances.

Here are others, not unconnected with the country we are travelling in: "Poor Erasmus truckled all his life for a hat.