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 Vain-glory. His heautontoreumenous mighty Magnanimity was not satisfied with picking up Petitions in the Castle-yard at Dublin, and preferring them to the Secretaries men. No, he would over into Ireland to fetch Papers against Petty, and (like the * Eunuch) read them in the Parliament, before hee understood them. Hee was not satisfied with whispering nothing in some bodies ear, as hee used to do when my Lord Deputy rode a hunting, but hee would go bawle in a Parliament: Hee would not be confined to shew his admirable Obstreperosity in a Committee only, but his lungs and winde too in the great Assembly at Westminster. Ambition was the work and error of this Errant Knight, and contempt must be his wages; hee that would be so immeritoriously famous, must be made so by being rendred ridiculous; nam in quo quis peccat, in eodem punietur.

Now, to shew that 'tis no new thing for Sir Hierome to seed his ambitious humour, by attempting great difficulties, or rather by fancying and creating such in his imagination, throwing down the Castles of Cards which himself sets up, I