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 thinks I am even with him, he'll never leave being at odds with me; but out of fear of worse then I intend him, he'll do me a second and third injury to disable me from revenging his first. Besides, I knew a friend of Sir Jeromes, who unprovoked, took an unhandsome freedome to traduce in print a Proposal made out of good intention to the publick; and being sharply handled for his labour, became afterwards very quiet.

6ly, I find a free and careless dealing with this Knight to be most proper: Nam Nimio Candore uti erga prava ingenia periculosum. Besides, none of his great provocations have hitherto forced me out of my usual patience, and contempt of his false and scurrilous dealings: for although this Knight in his first assault upon me in Parliament, did even fright the house with the description he gave of me; declaring, that never such wickedness, never such monstrous and hellish practices were used as by me; inciting them to all cruelty and hardship imaginable: yet I, in revenge, onely told the house, that this Knight was a person never famous for his Sagacity; that he