let me now answer your facetious Letter (of 10 August) with a joculatory line or two

This might all seem grist to Berkeley’s mill. Berkeley himself knew that we interpret our experience in spatio-temporal, objective terms. But he thought we had to ‘speak with the vulgar but think with the learned’: in other words, learn to regard that interpretation as a kind of façon de parler, rather than the description of a real, independent, objective world.

Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce.

He confirmed that he had power of attorney.