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 the fuse of his Tongue, clap him into a Mortarpiece at Clonmell or Woodstock, and so shoot him into a Parliament, where he breaks himself into a thousand pieces, but hurts no body.

I have not said my Judges were byassed, but on the contrary have given reasons why they could not be so: but that my Enemies have endeavoured it, is most certain; for why should they stick at that? who have been so impetuously active to draw witnesses to depose that, which may one day make them depose their Eares in the Pillory.

There be two sorts of Imprisonment; one serves to oblige a man to his tryal: now I think no man will construe mee to mean an escape out of such a Prison, when I have hunted after a tryal, waved my Priviledge as a Parliament man for that purpose, and was willing to cast my self