Button up well. It's freezing outside today.

And when I ſawe him, I fell at his feete as dead : and hee laid his right hand vpon me, ſaying vnto mee, Feare not, *I am the firſt,and the laſt.

a basket of drippingly ripe peaches

'Ah, the Julian calendar, yes. What-ho for jolly old Julian.' I winced; he never sounded more Jewish than when he came out with these Woosterisms.