Yet the other bodies fought so well, that he lost not much, besides the _honour of the day_ .-- _Swift_.

He was used to that.
P.407._Burnet_.

These leading men did so entangle the debates, and over-reached those on whom he had practised, that they, working on the aversion that the English nation naturally has to a French interest, spoiled the hopefullest session the court had had of a great while, before the court was well aware of it .-- _Swift_.

Rare style! P.409._Burnet_, Lord Danby, speaking to King Charles II., said:--If they saw his [the Duke of York's] daughter given to one that was at the head of the Protestant interest, it would very much soften those apprehensions, when it did appear that his religion was only a personal thing, not to be derived to his children after him.

With all this the King was convinced .-- _Swift_.