"The Confessions of a man so variously consulted andtrusted, if written with the candour of a Cardan or a Rousseau,would indeed be invaluable. The Memoirs of William Lilly,though deficient in this essential ingredient, yet contain avariety of curious and interesting anecdotes of himself and hiscotemporaries, which, where the vanity of the writer, or the truthof his art, is not concerned, may be received with implicitcredence.