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  to my very great prejudice.

Moreover when once a Complaint was causelesly exhibited and bitterly prosecuted against me, whereas possibly I might have pacified the Complainant in some other way, equal'y just: Yet I did often in such cases, rather fortius nodos stringere, tye the faster knots, straining them even so hard, as that no Friendship or Interest my Opponents had with the greatest, could afterwards untye them.  Whilst the Jealousies and Suspitions of many against me were but as a vapour and exhalation from their own dirty hearts, no man thought it worth his while to condense them into so thick and stormy a Cloud, as since hath appeared. But when adventurous Sir Jerome (out of hopes to get himself set up with Gogmagog and Corinæus, or with Bevis of Southampton, and to have his formidable Effigies hung up for a Sign at those Taverns where Hectors and Knights Errant use to roar and rant) accused me in Parliament, and had raised a mighty smoak, he then perceiving his Enterprize to be dangerous, undertook an Errantry (as was said before) into Ireland, and there with Prayers, Tears, and all 