As this Rage of theirs was implacable, so, as I hinted before, it
drove them into another Subdivision of Parties, and now began the
Mysterious Plot to be laid which I mention'd before; for the Cortez
being summon'd, and the Law being proposed, some of these high
Solunarians appear'd in Confederacy with the Crolians, in perfect
Confederacy with them, a thing no Body would have imagin'd could ever
ha' been brought to pass.

Now as these sorts of Plots must always be carry'd very nicely, so
these high Gentlemen who Confederated with the Crolians, having, to
spight the other, resolv'd effectually to prevent the passing the Law
against the Qualification of the Crolians, it was not their Business
immediately to declare themselves against it as a Law, but by still
loading it with some Extravagance or other, and pushing it on to some
intolerable Extreme, secure its miscarriage.

In the managing this Plot, one of their Authors was specially
employ'd, and that all that was really true of the Crolian Dissenters
might be ridicul'd, his Work was to draw monstrous Pictures of them,
which no Body could believe; this took immediately, for now People
began to look at their Shooes to see if they were not Cloven Footed
as they went a long Streets; and at last finding they were really
shap'd like the rest of the Lunar Inhabitants, they went back to the
Author, who was a Learned Member of a certain Seminary, or
Brother-hood of the Solunarian Clergy, and enquir'd if he were not
Mad, Distracted and Raving, or Moon-blind, and in want of the
thinking Engine; but finding all things right there, and that he was
in his Senses, especially in a Morning when he was a little free
from, &c. that he was a Good, Honest, Jolly, Solunarian Priest, and
no room could be found for an Objection there. Upon all these