e has published; which
would make his Readers think that he intended to pass rather for a Wise
and Good Man, than for a Witty.

Another sufficient Reason for me to reject this Answer, is, That it
makes Sir _W. T._ grant in some kind, the severest of _de Cros_'s
unreasonable Slanders, of _failing in his Fidelity to his Master_; and
to defend himself in it, by excusing it from Examples of that kind;
which in my Opinion, would be to lay himself needlesly open to Censures,
that I suppose, he has not deserved; and would shew such a want of
Judgment in him, as I shall not be apt to believe from any other
Writings but his own, and better attested than I find it here.

I shall add to all these, what I observed in an Advertisement before the
First Part of the _Miscellanea_, where the Bookseller tells the Reader
from the Author, that thenceforth he would never Publish any thing
without putting his Name to it, which not finding before this Pamphlet,
was another Reason to conclude it a supposititious Piece. All which put
together, makes me believe Sir _W. T._ was no more the Author of this
Answer, than of _Tully_'s _Offices_.

When I had satisfied my self in this Point, it was not easy for me to
find out what the Writer of this Answer should mean by taking so much
pains to make it pass for Sir _W. T_'s; which seems to me a very new way
of Writing; and whereof I cannot give any other instance besides this,
from what has occured in my Reading or Conversation. I know very well,
that several Ancient Pieces which go under great Author's Names, are
found by the Learned Criticks of these latter Ages, to have been
spurious; yet they were never born till long after the Death of the
supposed Fathers. I know likewise, that there have been several Laws
made in _France_; one, I am sure, in this present Century, against the
Printing any Books, under severe Penalties, without setting the Author's
Name to them, and their known Name, because some having two Names, one
by which they were commonly called, tho the other perhaps were the
particular Name of their Family; some Persons disguised their Writings
under the Name that was little known, tho it might be their own: To so
nice and cautious Cares the Laws there thought fit to descend upon this
matter. I remember there was an Ingenious Discourse Printed within these
few years in _France_, upon the Custom of using borrowed or disguised
Names in the Publishing of Books: But in the Censures and Compl