20 LIFE OF ARCIIBISIIOr SANCROFT. 



it, my damnation would be just. As for this 

 new-sprung informer, whether raised of himself, 

 or conjured up by others, I cannot but wonder 

 to find myself in the same treason with the 



noble lords N m and H f, and so many 



others, whom I know not at all, or not well 

 enough to subscribe the same address with 

 them. And though I know not how long 

 cockatrices sit upon their eggs ; yet I cannot 

 but think that after nine months brooding them 

 (and I know not how many more) they should 

 by this time be addle, and never come to a vital 

 exclusion. If Clarke, of Bennet-Finck's, the 

 life-writer, be alive, I wish he would write (so 

 he would do it truly) the parallel lives of Old 

 Titus O. and the modern William Fuller : he 

 would be a fit Plutarch (and good enough in 

 conscience) to write the gests of these two 

 noble Roman heroes, of St. Omers and Paris. 

 For my part, I defy them both, and all the 

 children of the father of lies. Hie murus 

 aheneus esto, nil conscire sibi. 



" Yours, Yours, 



'' W. C. 

 " I pray present my respects and service to 

 all my friends, that remember and ask after me. 

 Dr. Smith and the rest : but with particular 

 and more special regards to Captain H., and 

 the most noble Lord W th; with whose 



