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Sir Hierome to any good man, such as the Eunuch mentioned in the Scripture was: Similitudes are not to run on all four; if they hop well upon one foot, it is well enough. The Eunuch read what hee understood not; so did my Knight: but the Eunuch was willing to learn; whereas Sir Hierome is desperately indocible. The former took the orderly way to understand; my Knight (like an obstinately deaf Adder) hath alwaies stopt his ears. The Eunuch was not baptised till hee understood what he did; Sir Hierome was. The Eunuch was in favour with his Queen, and ventured the loosing of it by his Conversion; whereas Sir Hierome had no other way to answer the Articles which some had prepared against him, nor to get favour with any, but by lifting himself into a new Interest; whether spiritual or temporal I will not say.
There be some who will not understand, that by the Eunuch I mention, I meant Philip named in the Acts of the Apostles, but rather will apprehend my meaning to be, that Sir Hierome read like an Eunuch, that is, in the uncooth voice and tone of Eunuchs; or that I hinted the suspition
