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has many times fallen to my good-fortune, in the exercise of my calling, to have encountered persons of high distinction, picked out for cynosures of the public gaze, and marked and predestined to fill a great part in the history of our times. There was his lordship, the Earl of Shaftesbury for one, a Minister of the Cabal, and a cock of the game to boot; and I could tell, if I were minded, of my meeting with Bloody Jeffreys, and of the trick I put upon him; while, to name no other, I had a mighty queer adventure in communion with that dirty toad, Titus Oates. But the sally that best pleased