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iv.) of the previous Article, addressed to Anthony Hinton ; the other 



to his cousin Reginald Scriven. 



*"Yo r Ires make men con that you understand I beare you displeasure, 

 and that yt hath appeared by sundry attempts of myne of late, groundinge 

 my quarell upon words of Cawley, who doth utterly deny yt, verily I have 

 heard by a longe tyme you have not byn well, but so farr to be distempered, 

 as by yo r Ires appeareth, I knew not That you were the Autho r of all ill 

 attempts and secreat workings, of all w ch I knewe nothinge before the receipt of 

 those Ires. Yf you had expressed those attempts, the matter would appeare the 

 playner, for sure I am you have uttered as foolishe as that, I have heard saye 

 that you have not byn well a good while, but so farr distempered I knew not. 

 That you had byn run into any suche distemperature and unseasonablenes I 

 would not have thought yt, had not yo r owne Ires expressed yt, That maketh 

 me also to knowe that Cawleys adv'tisements were not altogether w th out matter 

 and truthe, that shewed me that you were one that envied me, and other watch- 

 inge to do harme, when occasion should rise, That you were the setter on of the 

 tennts of Chilton in all their p r tended villanies. This can foure psons witnes, 

 honester men then he. But in the latter pte of yo r Ires, very excellent in yt 

 self, you say very magnifically that you did little looke fo r suche hard dealinge 

 at my hands, you say magnifically that, I pray where dwell you or what pa- 

 rents came you from, that you take yt, or howe cometh yt about, that I have so 

 muche forgotten my self, there is nothinge but hard dealinge in yo r mouthe. 

 Yf you have lent me money at any tyme, as yo r Ires mencon, w ch hath not byn 

 past wise, once xx u and another x 1 '. Another tyme I remember you would, and 

 in faith I never sent to you for yt, nor neded yt not, w ch lone of yo r8 was all- 

 wayes upon good pawne of plate, and not above three monethes or sixe. But 

 no we you have upbrayed me w th yt, I trust you have yo r peniworthes and are 

 satisfied, yf not send me somuch plate, and I will lend you somuche money as 

 ever you lent me and twise as longe. And then are you double aunswered upon 

 that point, that you say I brake day w th you I cannot forbeare you, for playnly 

 and truly you do lye in yt, And lyinge in a miser is a miserable thinge. But 

 yt is allways proper to base condicon. And further, in }*o r Ires you say that yf 

 you have honestly and faithfully travelled in my causes, you are ill repayed w th 

 hard dealinge. What cause of myne that you should bo so traveled in, and so 

 mightie in remembraunce w th you I cannott gesse. But sure I am that I have 

 in many things borne w"' you, And suffred harmes and losses by you; And used 

 you allwayes better then belonged to yo r condicon. But I will mend yt and 

 pcead in truth as I think good, gevinge you w th all to understand that I am not 

 he that is in erro r or hath not what to followe. And this for aunswere to yo r 

 Ires written fo r some devise. 



"He that fo r all yo r secreat envy, 



"and private malice must lyve by you." 



in, my helth not so well servingo me as it hath downo, whereby I cannot 



te friuds nor follow my bussynes as I have bynn aocostomed to do hearto- 



tori , I am dryvea oituer to Letters to aequitt me in the one, and to expresse 



•(.mi Beoord Offloe, London " Dwell Correepondenoe." Mine. US, 



