r regard any he makes to them.

A third Reason is, Because his Letter is indeed unanswerable; and
Prosecution would be as little necessary to him, as to one that pleads
guilty at the Bar; for he owns over and over, every Line of the Charge
that he pretends is laid against him; says not one word, either to
defend or extenuate it; does not contradict the least point in the
Memoirs he pretends to Answer; nor lays one ill Action to Sir _W. T_'s
Honour. So that there remains but one way to Answer this Letter with any
Rule or Justice, and that is, to gather all the cleanly Language one can
pick up at _Billingsgate_, and bring it in its natural Reeking to the
Press, and so make up a short, but sweet Pamphlet, set out with a
Bead-roll of such Pearls, as are always to be found among the
Oyster-women.

A fourth Reason is, Because that Book which goes by the Name of Sir
_W. T_'s _Memoirs_, as one sees by the Publishers Preface, has been
printed wholly without his Knowledg or Consent: For in the very first
lines he plainly intimates he had his Copy from no Man then alive: And
a known Writer since, who pretends to have inquired into that matter,
assures us, the Publisher had it lying by him several years before it was
published; nor can I find by my own best Inquiries, that Sir _W. T._ has
ever own'd it. And tho I may believe, like others, that he must have
writ them, by that excellent Stile, that strength and clearness of
Expression, as well as by that Spirit and Genius which so brightly
shines through the whole, and is peculiar to that Author above others of
his Age; and besides, because I suppose no Man else was capable of
knowing or discovering so much of these Transactions; yet since they
have stollen into Publick against his will and his privity, it is not to
be imagined he should defend a thing he does not reckon as his own; and
therefore if _de Cros_, or the honest _Translator_, had found themselves
injured, their resentments had been more justly levelled at the
Publisher, than the supposed Author.

By all these Reasons, 'tis easy to believe, that a Person of Sir
_W. T_'s Character and Honour, and whose Reputation is so firmly
established in the World, will never fall so low to oppose himself
against the Scurrilous Reproaches of so foul-mouth'd a Railer; 'twould
be like a set Duel between a strong Man well-arm'd, and a poor wretched
Cripple. The Quarrel therefore will be more properly turn'd over to the
rest of Mankind; f