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are either already publiquely known, or proveable upon the place, Otherwise I could have inserted his unhandsome dealing with his poor Souldiers about Lismalin Parke, his trinckling with the Surveyors in Tipperary and Meath, and the Articles which he answered by denying those of his Faith. I say, I omit these things, because I intend to handle them & him in the more suitable stile of my intended Satir; Besides, it could not be just, nor so much as Christian, to complain to the whole Church (much less to rail in a Parliament) against a Brother, with whom he had not first dealt more privately, and pretend monstrous matters at a time when (though they might be very monstrous and many indeed) he knew nothing of them;
No, as I said before, 'twas his bare ambition; hee would be The man that should punish the great Malefactor, The Butcher that should bring the mad Bull to the Ring, The St George that must kill the Dragon. His being then lately Knighted, crackt his brittle brain, and inspired him with fury to fight with any thing, for the sake of his dear Dulcinia,