IN mentioning the word _gay_ (as in the close of the last chapter) it
puts one (_i.e._ an author) in mind of the word _spleen_——especially if
he has any thing to say upon it: not that by any analysis—or that from
any table of interest or genealogy, there appears much more ground of
alliance betwixt them, than betwixt light and darkness, or any two of
the most unfriendly opposites in nature——only ’tis an undercraft of
authors to keep up a good understanding amongst words, as politicians
do amongst men—not knowing how near they may be under a necessity of
placing them to each other——which point being now gain’d, and that I
may place mine exactly to my mind, I write it down here—