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 not having due respect to the Officers and others who had business with me. And this most frequently hapned from those, who trusting to the sharpness of their own wits, would first attaque me with jeers, but being replyed upon beyond their expectations, and deservedly laught at by the standers by, would grow angry and seek their revenge at other weapons, like Gamesters; who (out of the high opinion they have, that fortune is bound to favour them) venture to play, but when they find it otherwise, snatch up their stakes, and betake themselves to scurrility and violence. Moreover, when I had to do at this sport with many together at once, all those who were not themselves toucht, would encourage this jocularity by their complaisant laughing, on my side; but yet when they hapned to receive a shot themselves, would seem no less enraged then he, whom alone they intended as a sacrifice to Mirth and laughter.

10ly, Being a votary neither to any one particular sect or superstition, (as a member of Christs universal Church) nor to any one Faction or party as obedient