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and Glory of several Persons of Quality, and distinguished by their Merit; whose Fortune and Reputation Sir _W. T._ hath so much envied: for I am particularly acquainted with Sir _W_'s Pride. He looks upon himself to have the greatest Reach, to be the wisest and ablest Politician of his Time; and a man may perceive abundance of Satyrical Reflexions scattered here and there in his Work against most illustrious Persons, and that he hath stuffed his Memoirs with his own Praise, and the fond over-weening Opinion he hath of himself. Without doubt this is quite different from that Sincerity and Modesty which reigns throughout the Memoirs of _Villeroy_, in the Negotiations and Transactions of _Jeanin_, in the Letters of Card. _Dossat_, those mighty and truly eminent Persons, esteemed as such by the greatest Princes of their Age; and even still are to this day, by the ablest Politicians, with much more Justice and Glory than Sir _W_'s Book-Seller stiles him, _One of the Greatest Men of this Age_. It had been Sir _W_'s duty to have regulated himself according to their most excellent Pattern. I shall at present only quote one Passage, which I accidentally light on at the first opening his Book, whereby one may easily guess at the greatness of his presumption; in a short time, _My Lord_, I shall give you occasion to observe many others. _The Negotiations_, saith he, _that I managed and transacted at the_ Hague, _at_ Brussels, _at_ Aix la Chapelle, _which saved_ Flanders _from the_ French _Churches, in 68. made People believe I had some Credit and Reputation amongst the_ Spaniards, _as well as in_ Holland. 'Twas a Piece of strange Ingratitude of the _Hollanders_ and _Spaniards_, as well as of his own dear Country-men, so much concern'd for the preservation of _Flanders_, not to rear him a Statue, which, he saith, somewhere else, Mr. _Godolphin_ had promised him. Could Sir. _W. T._ have done any thing to deserve it more; or was there any thing more worthy of Triumph than to have preserved _Flanders_, a Country so important to the _Spaniard_, and the only Bulwark of _Holland_ and _England_? But Sir _W._ was apt to believe he could not find any one who was better able to hammer out his own Glory than himself; and he flattered himself with the Opinion that he should erect himself as many Statues, as there are places in his Memoirs, crouded with intolerable and ridiculous Vain-glory. It was not the Negotiations, my Lord, that
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