Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

Tho' I have had first and last, such a Number of Pamphlets thrown at me, that if I had been Vulnerable, I might appear stuck as full of Darts as the man in the Signs of the Almanac; yet, upon considering the sorry and filly Stuff which they have Consisted of, and the Despicable and Stercoreous Quality of the Scribblers, and Remembering that Lies have no Legs, and what I had Learnt about the Treating of Insolent men with Humility, and Angry Men with Meekness; I have still thought, the Twenty-sixth of the Proverbs and the Fourth, a full Answer to them: Sile, et funestam dedisti ⟨p. ix⟩Plagam! I have had so much Better Work to spend my Precious Time in, that I don't call to mind, I have ever once yet, Published a Direct and Formal Answer to any of them all, but instead thereof and once for all, I gave to the Public my, True Way of Shaking off a asper. Yea, and I would now also have Excused Oldmixon too, (with as much Disdain as I have done, a Dirty and a Drunken STREET, or a Whiting that can spawn a Volume of Lies at once without Blushing at them; Or the rest of the Unregardable Sons of Darkness) if the Venerable Person for whom I am now doing an Act of Piety, had not been Assaulted by him with such rude and coarse Indignities, that I must have been a very Dumb Son indeed, if I did not break my Silence upon it.

Tho' I have had first and last, such a Number of Pamphletts thrown at me, that if I had been Vulnerable, I might appear stuck as full of Darts as the man in the Signs of the Almanack; yet, upon considering the sorry and filly Stuff which they have Consisted of, and the Despicable and Stercoreous Quality of the Scriblers, and Remembring that Lyes have no Legs, and what I had Learnt about the Treating of Insolent men with Humility, and Angry Men with Meekness; I have still tho't, the Twenty-sixth of the Proverbs and the Fourth, a full Answer to them: Sile, et funestam dedisti ⟨p. ix⟩Plagam! I have had so much Better Work to spend my Precious Time in, that I don't call to mind, I have ever once yet, Published a Direct and Formal Answer to any of them all, but instead thereof and once for all, I gave to the Public my, True Way of Shaking off a asper. Yea, and I would now also have Excused Oldmixon too, (with as much Disdain as I have done, a Dirty and a Drunken STREET, or a Whiting that can spawn a Volumn of Lies at once without Blushing at them; Or the rest of the Unregardable Sons of Darkness) if the Venerable Person for whom I am now doing an Act of Piety, had not been Assaulted by him with such rude and coarse Indignities, that I must have been a very Dumb Son indeed, if I did not break my Silence upon it.