An answer to Mr. George Walkers vindication, or rather, fresh accusation wherein he chargeth…

For first, who be the They, that he speaketh of? was it the Doctor alone, that told all this fair tale, and pretended all this? how cometh he then to say, They? Or if M. Downham be included, who is related to have dined at the same time with them; how doth M. Walker, in his ensuing Discourse make him ^xa mute Actor in this Scene, one that ^yby silence only assented to, what the Doctor then said? Again, where, think we, meaneth he, that all this was pretended? was it pretended at the Table? or was it related only there; but pretended before at the meeting among our selves? But I shall leave it to any man of ordinary understanding to conceive, how likely it is; either that M. Wottons friends (for such M. Walker saith they were all) should thus conspire to ensnare him; or that such a consultation should be had among us in the presence of M. Wotton himself. For we did nothing at our meetings but in the presence of M. Wotton and M. Walker; who were neither of them ever excluded, or required to withdraw themselves upon any occasion, during the whole hearing. But M. Walker it may well seem, was somewhat distracted in mind, when he writ this; studying how to bring in handsomely what himself had invented, ⟨p. 32⟩and uncertain whom to father and fasten it upon. For mark, I pray you, what immediately follows.

For first, who be the They, that he speaketh of? was it the Doctor alone, that told all this faire tale, and pretended all this? how cometh he then to say, They? Or if M. Downham be included, who is related to have dined at the same time with them; how doth M. Walker, in his ensuing Discourse make him ^xa mute Actor in this Scene, one that ^yby silence only assented to, what the Doctor then said? Again, where, think we, meaneth he, that all this was pretended? was it pretended at the Table? or was it related only there; but pretended before at the meeting among our selves? But I shall leave it to any man of ordinary understanding to conceive, how likely it is; either that M. Wottons friends (for such M. Walker saith they were all) should thus conspire to ensnare him; or that such a consultation should be had among us in the presence of M. Wotton himselfe. For we did nothing at our meetings but in the presence of M. Wotton and M. VValker; who were neither of them ever excluded, or required to withdraw themselves upon any occasion, during the whole hearing. But M. Walker it may well seem, was somewhat distracted in mind, when he writ this; studying how to bring in handsomely what himselfe had invented,