62/72 _Burnet,_ speaking of Lord Essex's suicide (1683)--His man, thinking he stayed longer than ordinary in his _closet_, looked through the key hole, and there saw him lying dead .-- _Swift._ He was on the close stool. _Burnet,_ on Lord Russell's trial--Finch summed up the evidence against him. shewed more of a vicious eloquence, in turning matters with some subtlety against the prisoners, than of solid or sincere reasoning .-- _Swift._ Afterwards Earl of Aylesford, an arrant rascal. _Burnet._ I offered to take my oath, that the speech [of Lord Russell] was penned by himself, and not by me .-- _Swift._ Jesuitical. |