Neither can she alleadge this impious proceeding was an Effect of a precipitate Election upon a sudden emergency.

-Gave hir not only leasure to reflect on hir Crime but power to recall it.

-Was a premeditated Dessein, & not a hasty choice.

-Which action of V hir depraved Reason makes a confirmative argument of continuing in hir vice.

This Sir, which I [ 'beleeve' deleted], alleadge wud be, I beleeve the reasoning of a stranger which has any.

And tho in this Action I evinc't that I preferr'd Gratitude before Life - so I did too, that I preferr'd Death before any Alliance with P.

For to justify she murther'd me with a good intention.

As if one Crime cud expiate another.

-To consider hir sufferings as an immediate Justice of the Gods, for hir want of Duty; yet as soone as H. threatned to be their instrument in it, I not only hazarded &c

Neither did his long abstaining from justifying himselfe to me, proceed, (as Is. said) from his Ignorance of my Resentments, but from his being conscious to the justice of them.

And after that by my former concessions I had manifested to hir that my present proceedings were effects of my Reason & not Aversion for hir Lover.

-So farre from sympathizing with me in -

And hir not [ 'by' deleted] being marryed which she alleadges to qualify, is an aggravation of hir Crime.

-She must be more oblig'd to men's Charitys then to hir actions, if they have not thereby as bad a Character of hir Chastity, as I of hir Duty.

-They are not much dissonant from truth.

If your Justice be proportionable to your Pow'r.

-To Declaime upon a Theame which would have furnish't reasons to a Judgment as Ill as his was excellent.

Whose guilt is as much in their faces as their harts.

This office we accepted; were seemingly wicked but to be really the Contrary: for we apprehended our Declining their overture might have induc't them to invite some other to embrace it; where the Greatnesse of the reward might have cover'd the Greatnesse of the Crime.

-had bin a sin as well against Gratitude as honor.

-'twas not only by your Permission but by your command.

- That whosoever endeavor'd the Death of the Generall, shud receive his owne for punishment: so that he had nothing to do but to give the Law it's Course, which in that case to oppose, was not to be Mercifull but Unjust.

-That since for him to be just would make them happy; they would pardon a revenge which he inflicted as much upon their score as his owne.

-At Sp. feete, which having a while washt with their Teares, they beg'd him either to alter his sentence or permit them to participate in it.

-That if - they would be rather content with their eternall separation, then purchase it at that rate.

That the Cause of their Union would take away all satisfaction in the Effect; that they should be more miserable by[altered from 'in'] the losse of their parents then in their Cruelty.

-And either by Greefe or resolution suddenly follow them.

Which they would suddenly repaire by embracing a resembling Destiny to their's.

Are you so much fortify'd against V, that soe powerfull an Assault must remaine fruitlesse?