off safe they may have the boasting Part of the Victory, and the
beaten Part both together.

'Twould be endless to call over the Roll of their sublime Politicks.
They damn Moderation in order to Peace and Union, set the House on
Fire to save it from Desolation, Plunder to avoid Persecution, and
consolidate Things in order to their more immediate Dissolution.

Had our High Church-Men been Masters of these excellent Arts, they
had long ago brought their Designs to pass.

The exquisite Plot of these High Solunarians answer'd the Crolians
End, for it broke all their Enemies Measures, the Law vanish'd, the
Grandees could hardly be perswaded to read it, and when it was
propos'd to be read again, they hist at it, and threw it by with
Contempt.

Nor was this all; for it not only lost them their Design as to this
Law, but it also absolutely broke the Party, and just as it was with
Adam and Eve, as soon as they Sinn'd they Quarrell'd, and fell out
with one another; so, as soon as things came to this height, the
Party fell out one among another, and even the High Men themselves
were divided, some were for Consolidating, and some not for
Consolidating, some were for Tacking, and some not for Tacking, as
they were, or were not let into the Secret.

If this Confusion of Languages, or Interest, lost them the real
Design, it cannot be a wonder; have we not always seen it in our
World, that dividing an Interest, weakens and exposes it? Has not a
great many both good and bad Designs been render'd Abortive in this