Ibid. Burnet. The King had another mistress, that was managed by Lord Shaftesbury, who was the daughter of a clergyman, Roberts, in whom her first education had so deep a root, that, though she fell into many scandalous disorders, with very dismal adventures in them all, yet a principle of religion was so deep laid in her, that, though it did not restrain her, yet it kept alive in her such a constant horror at sin, that she was never easy in an ill course, and died with a great sense of her former ill life.  I was often with her the last three months of her life.—­Swift.  Was she handsome then?

P. 264. Burnet.  The King loved his [the Earl of Rochester’s] company for the diversion it afforded, better than his person:  And there was no love lost between them.—­Swift.  A noble phrase.

P. 265. Burnet.  Sedley had a more sudden and copious wit, which furnished a perpetual run of discourse:  But he was not so correct as Lord Dorset, nor so sparkling as Lord Rochester.—­Swift.  No better a critic in wit than style.

P. 266. Burnet.  Lord Roberts, afterwards made Earl of Radnor, [who succeeded the Duke of Ormonde in his government of Ireland,] was a morose man, believed to be severely just, and as wise as a cynical humour could allow him to be.—­Swift.  How does that hinder wisdom?

P. 273. Burnet.  Charles II. confessed himself a Papist to the Prince of Orange:—­The Prince told me, that he never spoke of this to any other person, till after his death.—­Swift.  That is, his own death.

P. 277. Burnet quotes an exclamation of Archbishop Sharp’s, after an attempt to assassinate him, and adds:—­This was the single expression savouring of piety, that ever fell from him in all the conversation that passed between him and me.—­Swift. Rank malice.

P. 285. Burnet.  No body could ever tell me how the word “Ecclesiastical matters” was put in the Act.  Leightoun thought, he was sure it was put in after the draught and form of the Act was agreed on.—­Swift.  Nonsense.

P. 287. Burnet, speaking of Archbishop Burnet, says:—­He was not cut out for a court, or for the ministry.—­Swift.  A phrase of dignity.

Ibid.  Burne, mentioning his own appointment as Professor of Divinity at Glasgow University, says:—­There was no sort of artifice or management to bring this about:  It came of themselves:  And they did it without any recommendation of any person whatsoever.—­Swift.  Modest.

P. 288. Burnet.  The Episcopal party thought I intended to make myself popular at their cost:  So they began that strain of fury and calumny that has pursued me ever since from that sort of people.—­Swift.  A civil term for all who are Episcopal.

P. 298. Burnet. [In compiling the Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton,] I found there materials for a very large history.  I writ it with great sincerity; and concealed none of their errors.  I did indeed conceal several things that related to the King:  I left out some passages that were in his letters; in some of which was too much weakness.—­Swift. The letters, if they had been published, could not have given a worse character.