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 many with a belief of them, yet no man to this day ever taxed me with the least to my face: The which if any person shall think it worth his pains to do hereafter, I shall willingly give a meeting to hear him, or to prove any of the particulars which I have alledged in this Discourse.

And I desire all now in Power, especially such who (as I had) have the dispensing of benefits to multitudes, (by way of Antidote to themselves) to procure a fair hearing of Sir Hieromes Articles, as also of my Services and Sufferings in Ireland, ''that I or my Adversaries may be repaired or punished, according to our respective demerits. I desire the same also from the curious in general,'' viz. that they would examine, Whether there must be Fire, that is, Guilt, where there hath been so much smoak of Calumny; or whether what seems to be smoak, be any other then the steam of Sir Hierome and his Complices gross breaths, falling on the cold aire of my dying Interest; or any other then the reeking of those cholerick Animals Excrements, newly dung'd upon the snow of my Innocence; for my Enemies do not hate my Work, but envy my Wages; they labour to confirm