four in the morning
` What , is the worthy man as lively as ever ? ' ` Lively ? He nearly drove me into a nervous fever in three days . Up at four in the morning , always in the most disgustingly good health and spirits , farming , coursing , shooting , riding over hedge and ditch after rascally black robbers ; preaching , intriguing , borrowing money ; baptizing and excommunicating ; bullying that bully , Andronicus ; comforting old women , and giving pretty girls dowries ; scribbling one half-hour on philosophy , and the next on farriery ; sitting up all night writing hymns and drinking strong liquors ; off again on horseback at four the next morning ; and talking by the hour all the while about philosophic abstraction from the mundane tempest . Heaven defend me from all two-legged whirlwinds ! By the bye , there was a fair daughter of my nation came back to Alexandria in the same ship with me , with a cargo that may suit your highness . ' ` There are a great many fair daughters of your nation who might suit me , without any cargo at all . '