four in the morning
What a vast advantage is travelling ! only it heats one ; but there is a remedy for that , which you may pick out of the next chapter . Was I in a condition to stipulate with Death , as I am this moment with my apothecary , how and where I will take his clyster -- I should certainly declare against submitting to it before my friends ; and therefore I never seriously think upon the mode and manner of this great catastrophe , which generally takes up and torments my thoughts as much as the catastrophe itself ; but I constantly draw the curtain across it with this wish , that the Disposer of all things may so order it , that it happen not to me in my own house -- but rather in some decent inn -- at home , I know it , -- the concern of my friends , and the last services of wiping my brows , and smoothing my pillow , which the quivering hand of pale affection shall pay me , will so crucify my soul ; that I shall die of a distemper which my physician is not aware of : but in an inn , the few cold offices I wanted , would be purchased with a few guineas , and paid me with an undisturbed , but punctual attention -- but mark . This inn should not be the inn at _ Abbeville _ -- if there was not another inn in the universe , I would strike that inn out of the capitulation : so Let the horses be in the chaise exactly by four in the morning -- Yes , by four , Sir , -- or by _ Genevieve ! _ I 'll raise a clatter in the house shall wake the dead . `` _ Make them like unto a wheel _ , '' is a bitter sarcasm , as all the learned know , against the _ grand tour _ , and that restless spirit for making it , which _ David _ prophetically foresaw would haunt the children of men in the latter days ; and therefore , as thinketh the great bishop _ Hall _ , ’t is one of the severest imprecations which _ David _ ever utter 'd against the enemies of the Lord -- and , as if he had said , `` I wish them no worse luck than always to be rolling about '' -- So much motion , continues he -LRB- for he was very corpulent -RRB- -- is so much unquietness ; and so much of rest , by the same analogy , is so much of heaven . Now , I -LRB- being very thin -RRB- think differently ; and that so much of motion , is so much of life , and so much of joy -- and that to stand still , or get on but slowly , is death and the devil -- Hollo !