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 and throwing his Pipe down upon the Ground, that has laid the Foundation of all the Disturbances and Sorrows we feel and lament at this very Hour; and as for Trims giving up the Breeches, look ye, it is al­most Word for Word copied from the French King and Dauphins Renunciation of Spain and the West-Indies, which all the World knew (as was the very Case of the Breeches) were renounced by them on pur­pose to be reclaim'd when Time should serve.

This Explanation had too much Inge­nuity in it to be altogether slighted; and, in Truth, the worst Fault it had, seem'd to be the prodigious Heat of it; which (as an Apothecary, who sat next the Fire, ob­serv'd, in a very low Whisper to his next Neighbour) was so much incorporated into every Particle of it, that it was impossible, under such Fermentation, it should work its desired Effect.

This, however, no way intimidated a little valiant Gentleman, though he sat the very next Man, from giving an Opinion as diametrically opposite as East is from West.