confirms it, saying, If ever I saw him in my Life, I saw him but now: And then he related to the Doctor what had passed, thus: This Morning after it was light, some one comes to my Beds-side, and suddenly drawing back the Curtains, calls Cap. Cap. (which was the term of Familiarity that the Major used to call the Captain by) To whom I replied, What my Major? To which he returns, I could not come at the time appointed, but I am now come to tell you, That there is a God, and a very just and terrible one, and if you do not turn over a new Leaf, (the very Expressions as is by the Doctor punctually remembred) you will find it so. The Captain proceeded: On the Table by, there lay a Sword, which the Major had formerly given me, now after the Apparition had walked a turn or two about the Chamber, he took up the Sword, drew it out, and finding it not so clean and bright as it ought, Cap, Cap, says he, this Sword did not use to be kept after this manner when it was mine. After which Words he suddenly disappeared.
The Captain was not only throughly persuaded of what he had thus seen and heard, but was from that time observed to be very much affected with it: And the Humour that before in him was brisk and jovial, was then strangely alter'd; insomuch, as very little Meat would pass down with him at Dinner, though at the taking leave of their Friends there was a very handsome Treat provided: Yea it was observed, that what the Captain had thus seen and heard, had a more lasting Influence upon him, and 'tis judged by those who were well acquainted with his Conversation, that the remembrance of this Passage stuck close to him, and that those Words of his dead Friend were frequently sounding fresh in his Ears, during the remainder of his Life, which was about two Years.
ADVERTISEMENT.
FOR a farther Assurance of the Truth of the Story, it will not be amiss to take notice what M. Douch writes in his second Letter to Mr. Glanvil, touching the Character of the Major and the Captain. They were both, saith he, of my good Acquaintance, Men well bred, and of a brisk Humour, and jolly Conversation, of
