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 of the ayre? or venture to be just when so many durst be otherwise? 'Twas Dr. Petty's happiness that among all the disobliged your Lordship was not one; 'Twas well he never provoked you to silence: For, My Lord, you might without prejudice to your virtue have said nothing for him, though without other cause then yet appears, Neither your Conscience nor your Honour would have permitted you to speak against him: 'Tis a wonder you had not been silent on his behalf, out of fore-sight that men coming to understand the efficacie of your Judgement, would fly in swarmes, unto it for patronage, so as to disquiet you with their importunity, but that I know 'tis as easie for your Lordship to do good, as for the Sun to influence the Earth; Neither is it more pains for you to be well informed, then for a Looking-Glass to receive its Images. My Lord, You are that by nature, which neither Art nor Industry can form others into; And whereas others take as much pains to furnish themselves with languages, discourse, and other accomplishments, as we do to bring up Exoticq Plants in Physick Gardens; Your Lordship has