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in any case, like as in this. This Flower haunts me up and down, Caresses and entertains me, Courts me himselfe, solicits me by others, promises me great Services, as that he will take off my Enemies, help me to great bargains, &c. and all but to work me unto that, for which he would now ruine me; when he has done it; He, like the Devil, first accuses me; represents the whole matter falsely, confessing still to several persons, that his End was but to save what he was to pay me, crying God and me pardon for his treachery and baseness, profering to be a false Brother to his confederates, if I would forgive him; And yet this Man having once over head and ears engaged himself, is encouraged to persist in this Diabolical practice; and though he be dealt with as infamous and criminous for many things else, yet is esteemed Glorious and Meritorious for his malice against me; Sir, I must cry out to you,
Oro miserere laborum,
Tantorum, miserere animi non digna ferentis.[1]
As for Sands, whereas I was to give him 800 acres of Land for an House
- ↑ Consider, I beseech you, all that I have undergone; have compassion on a mind which has suffered most unworthily. (Virgil) - Wikisource ed.
