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 your Lordships Candour, will give me leave upon the first hearing, to prefer the Opinion of one ( * who hath spent many years in the University, hath been Proctor of it, is Doctor of the Laws, a practised Teacher of Divinity, and a person pretending to be inspired, who hath had experience of all Governments and Religions, by his own acting in chancing them forward and backward; and who hath run forward and backward also, through several Titles of Honour) before your Lordships: you, my Lord, being a person not of half his Age, and delivering such your Opinion, as a matter besides your care and concernment: Nor could your Lordship expect, that Sir Hierome Haranguing in a Parliament, assaulting (as himself pretended) a very wily Adversary; and attempting a work which many before had been foiled in, should be less careful of what he asserted, then your unconcerned Lordship, in the ordinary entertainments of your Visitants: I say, my Lord, that these Considerations may obtain pardon for me, who was then unhappy in being a stranger to your Lordships vertues, and who had never gathered so