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 and the being paid 2665 l. twice more then was due, viz. thrice in all, with the 516. l. forgery, is but all one and the same thing, viz. a Question about the modus of my being satisfied about 3000. l. in Debenture, not worth a thousand in ready mony, and which I have often offered to accept in any modus allowed unto others. However, this Signior Puntarvuolo's two conspicuous Qualities of affected, Magnificence and Gravity, have magnified and aggravated the business, and have exposed it to publick view through the same Microscopes, in which he uses to shew the Dust of his own glory, and the small Mites of his own abilities, to the credulous little crew of his followers and Disciples: reckoning those acres as the yong Sophister did to the Farmer his Father, whereby he would prove that three Egges were six, because 1 2 and 3 pronounced, in telling these three Egges, added together, made six. I say, 'tis not the gain of these few frivolously controverted acres, that put them on these proceedings: For I believe they have already lost the Army about 20000 l. by what is already done, and that even