As decent as a thousand other passages; so he might have spared his apology.
P.414._Burnet_, in the last article of the above trial, observes:-- But the judge, who hated Sharp, as he went up to the bench, passing by the prisoner said to him, "Confess nothing, unless you are sure of your limbs as well as of your life."-- _Swift_.

A rare judge.
Ibid.

_Burnet_, mentioning Mackenzie's appointment as king's advocate, says of him:--He has published many books, some of law, but all full of faults; for he was a slight and superficial man .-- _Swift_.

Envious and base.
P.416._Burnet_, speaking of the execution of the above Mitchell for the attempt against Sharp, says:--Yet Duke Lauderdale had a chaplain, Hickes, afterwards Dean of Worcester, who published a false and partial relation of this matter, in order to the justifying of it--_Swift_.

A learned, pious man.[4] [Footnote 4: The "Ravillac [_sic_] Redivivus" of Hickes, is, notwithstanding his learning and piety, in every respect deserving of the censures passed upon it by Burnet.