Apart from some minimal tidying up (nearly always to my questions and comments; [Greil] Marcus “talks like a book,” as folk in England used to say about eloquent persons) and one small liberty taken with sequencing to preserve chronological flow, this is exactly how the conversation went down.

having shewed what Optimity, or Transcendent goodness is[…]

I am proud to present my patented travelator, mark two.

But, of all kinde of pasttimes, fitte so: a Gentleman, I will, godwilling, in a fitter place, more at large, declare fullie, in my booke of the Cockpitte; which I do write, to satisfie font, I trust, with som reason, that be more curious, in making other mens doinges, than carefull in mendyng their owne faultes.