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 As for the Army of Ireland, I do not remember I have said any thing which even Malice itself may wrest to their dishonour: for though they had been rough with me, I have no reason to take it ill, not onely because the business in question is their very great Concernment, and hath indeed been carried obscurely, (though God knows, by the backwardness of others in learning to understand it, rather then by any desire of mine to darken it) but also because I (who have received so many designed favours from them) ought not to be provoked with their casual and momentary frowns, and with the heats that particular persons have begate in them upon mistakes of the matter, which I could never yet come to discourse unto them: I say, I ought not to be, nor am I peevish at such their unkindnesses, nor should I be troubled at my own sufferings, did not that noble Army suffer an hundred times more, even by my sufferings, then I my self do; and that onely to feed the spleen and revenges of a few: for 'tis by this Army that I am what I am: they accepted my services as their Physitian, doubled my established pay, kept me up through all reducements,