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 Worsly out of pity resumes his primitive trade to plaister him, wherein also others joyn, that they might by some means or other fave themselves from being publickly laught at, and to perswade the world that they could not be outwitted by Doctor Petty: the latter of which, they indeed needed not to have troubled themselves withall, Doctor Petty having been alwaies forward to do them right, as to the point of their wits; though as for the latter, viz. being laughed at, hee knows not how to help them, unless the Judicatory they intend to set up be grossly partial; which if it be, then indeed they may escape being laughed at for the present, but in lieu of it, be censured as Calumniators by all indifferent Spectators, and yet be laughed at too, into the bargain hereafter, viz. at the next more impartial hearing of the business.

Time was, that Sir Jerome was so vain as to speak seriously of erecting my Statue; 'tis therefore but just I should hereafter draw his picture: In order whereunto what is occasionally said here and there in this discourse of him, is but priming the Cloth and grinding the colours for that purpose.