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 Prison will deny me: Perhaps I could have been able to buy now and then a little fresh air of my Keeper; or if my restraint had been maliciously straight or noisome, perhaps I might have found money, and borrowed wit for an (a) escape: besides the reparations, I should have one day expected at the hands of those, who had any hand in such ugly abusings of me.

4ly, Since it is no farther from York to London, then from London to York, why may not Sir Jerome, &c. (since by my Civilities and Services they have been provoked to the most extravagant bitterness against me) be by the Rule of contraries, mitigated and sweetned (which were a pretty experiment) by the sharpness of these redargutions: for in Burns, we use to take out the fire, not with the most cooling Medicaments.

5ly, Two Souldiers fighting with their Pistols, he that has first discharged will not so willingly parley, before tother has fired too, as afterwards: Now Sir Jerome hath already defamed me, it is therefore but necessary, even in order to peace, that I should a little deride him: for till he