Speaking of me, they say, " Such Contract we made with Mr. " Rou &c. and since he has been amongst us, whilst he behaved -' himself conformable to his Agreement, and for his Encour- ■ ' agement so to continue, did come to a second Agreement, &c." Here they would insinuate that I have not always performed my Agreement, and that there has been one time when I behaved myself conformable to it, and another time when I did not so. But this is entirely false ; I have always performed my Agreement in the same manner, and there has been but Httle diiference: So that if I have failed in the Performance of it in those last times, it must be supposed and said, that I have also failed in the beginning, and that, if I have behaved my self conformable to it at one time, viz. in the beginning, the same must be said of the last times with more reason. They have also been always very well satisfied of my Service in the Church when they had
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no particular occasion of Anger against me ; And they have shewn to all People in the Town a great satisfaction of it, &c. So that it is their Passion and their Fanc}^ that makes them content or discontent about that, without reason in the last point, and we may apply to them what Horace says of himself, Ep. I. lib. I.
Rides: quid, mea qiium pugnat scnlentia secum; Quod petiit spernit; repetit quod nuper omisit: ^stuat, et vitcc disconvenit ordine toto, Diruity CEdiJicat, mutai quadrata rotundis }