me__guen_, one who in all respects is so far above Sir
_W.T._ for all these great qualities; yet My Lord, affords Sir _W._
just as much _difference_, as a petty Scholar does a famous Pedant.
And to reward him, Sir _W. T._ would make him pass in the world, for
an Embassadour that was but at best his Scholar.

I make account to tell you, what Sir _W._ dare not acknowledge. Mr.
_Hyde_, being more subtile, and of greater Abilities than Sir _W._ and
of that quality too, that was not to be exposed, would not intermeddle
in a Mediation, which was like to suffer so gross Indignities, as the
Mediation of _England_ suffered at the Treaty of _Nimeguen_. One time
or other I shall publish those indignities in my Memoires, together
with the weakness, and tameness wherewith they were content to suffer
them.

But now, if Sir _W. T._ hath not spared such Illustrious persons as
these: No, not so much as My Lord Treasurer, at present Marquis of
_Caermarthen_, laying something to his charge, whom also he does not
do that right and Justice, which is due to so great a Minister of
State, one of the greatest Wits of the Age, for business; a person so
Loyal to the King his Master, that he sacrificed himself for his sake;
and after all, so full of zeal for his Country, that he hath bethought
himself of all expedients, and hath not feared to expose himself to
peril and utter undoing, that he might deliver it from the mischiefs
that threaten it; If Sir _Will._ hath not spared the Kings person,
whose Dignity and Reputation he so often sacrifices, can I hope to
escape his foul mouthed Language.

Peradventure he had better have done something else, & something
wiser; great Confident of Princes and Ks. the sole preserver of
_Flanders_, as he is, than to have entred the list with _a Monk, with
a kind of an Agent, and with a cunning Knave_. But his desire of
revenge hath prevailed, he believes himself cruelly wrong'd, and he is
in the right on't, for that at the _Hague_ and at _Nimeguen_, which he
was confident would be the Theatre of his Glory, they made him act a
disgraceful ridiculous part. He imagines I am partly the cause of it,
either because that my Voyage to _Nimeguen_ might have been the effect
of my Negotiation, which he might have gathered by the Kings answer,
or, because I might have done nothing in _Holland_, but administer
cause of Suspicions and Umbrages, that hasten'd on the Peace, in spite
of his Teeth, and Reverst the Treaty he had