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Nay, what will you say to see the church look 

 asquint at the Pope, and Portugal to lift up his 

 heel to kick against his elder brother of Spain ? 

 It's madness rather than manners to hear them 

 wrangle and jangle about religion, when there's 

 nothing left on't but bare opinion ; which if you 

 won't conform to, they'll stamp the character of 

 a stelletto upon you, or the bloody impressions 

 of an Inquisition. 



T/ieoph. What, no better entertainments in 

 the Spanish Court, than such rough salutes as 

 inquisitions and stellettos ! I should rather ap- 

 prove, that vertue in a Prince is the richest dia- 

 dem in his crown ; and clemency to his subjects 

 (the vital part of his kingdom) more obliging 

 than all the gilded baits of flattery. Money, it's 

 true, is the sinew of w r ar ; and honours and 

 dignities gaudy accomplishments. What of all 

 this ? when all comes to all, honesty is the best 

 policy. 



Am. Let me tell you, Theophilus, gold chains 

 best become great men, but not that gold makes 

 goodness, nor dignity greatness, any otherwise, 

 than a badg of honour makes a man truly ho- 

 nourable ; nor is honour more legitimate than 

 inherent worth ; both spring from one root ori- 

 ginally, and live above the smiles or frowns of 

 fortune. Nor can such a man be perverted that 

 hates the nauciating scent of a parasite, that dis- 



