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 was so shallow and transparent, that every one might without art or industry see through him; that he himself knew not what he went about; never so much as hinting, that Sir Jerome was capable of any deep hellish Plots, or that he held dangerous Principles, nor indeed that he stuck to any at all.

2ly, When he laboured to have me sent out of Ireland into England as a Prisoner, and like the enemy in the night sowed tares in my reputation, presented eleven scurrilous Articles to the Parliament against me, and that against his promise; and when he sought to exclude me the Act of Indempnity, &c. yet when I set out in print the brief of proceedings between us: I did not publish Sir Jeromes absurd, interrupted, unstarcht, hobling Speech, made in answer to mine in Parliament: I suppressed all the Tautalogical Ribaldry of the last eleven Articles; and in a way of pitying Sir Jerome, barely said, He was a man of small Conversation in the matters he laboured most about. Besides, I did several times move, (to th'end Sir Jerome might have time to repent) That he would chuse one of the very foulest