Ibid.  Burnet.  As soon as he [the Prince of Orange] was brought into the command of the armies, he told me, he spoke to De Witt, and desired to live in an entire confidence with him.  His answer was cold:  So he saw that he could not depend upon him.  When he told me this, he added, that he was certainly one of the greatest men of the age, and he believed he served his country faithfully—­Swift.  Yet the Prince contrived that he should be murdered.

Ibid.  Burnet.  Now I come to give an account of the fifth crisis brought on the whole reformation, which has been of the longest continuance, since we are yet in the agitations of it.—­Swift.  Under the Queen and Lord Oxford’s ministry.

P. 322. Burnet. [In this famous campaign of Louis XIV. against the Dutch, (1672,)] there was so little heart or judgement shewn in the management of that run of success, etc.—­Swift.  A metaphor, but from gamesters.

P. 326. Burnet, referring to the action of the rabble when Cornelius de Witt was banished, says of the Prince of Orange:—­His enemies have taken advantages from thence to cast the infamy of this on him, and on his party, to make them all odious; though the Prince spoke of it always to me with the greatest horror possible.—­Swift.  Yet he was guilty enough.

P. 328. Burnet.  Prince Waldeck was their chief general:  A man of a great compass.—­Swift, i.e. very fat.

P. 330. Burnet.  He broke twice with the Prince, after he came into a confidence with him.  He employed me to reconcile him to him for the third time—­Swift.  Perspicuity.

Ibid.  Burnet. The actions sinking on the sudden on the breaking out of a new war, that sunk him into a melancholy, which quite distracted him.—­Swift.  Eloquent.

P. 335. Burnet.  I will complete the transactions of this memorable year:—­P. 337.  Thus I have gone far into the state of affairs of Holland in this memorable year.—­Swift.  Why, you called it so but just now before.

P. 337. Burnet.  It seems, the French made no great account of their prisoners, for they released 25,000 Dutch for 50,000 crowns—­Swift.  What! ten shillings a piece!  By much too dear for a Dutchman.

Ibid.  Burnet.  This year [1672] the King declared a new mistress, and made her Duchess of Portsmouth.  She had been maid of honour to Madame, the King’s sister, and had come over with her to Dover; where the King had expressed such a regard to her, that the Duke of Buckingham, who hated the Duchess of Cleveland, intended to put her on the King.—­Swift. Surely he means the contrary.

P. 341. Burnet. [The Duke of Lauderdale] called for me all on the sudden, and put me in mind of the project I had laid before him, of putting all the outed ministers by couples into parishes:  So that instead of wandering about the country to hold conventicles in all places, they might be fixed to a certain abode, and every one might have the half of a benefice.—­Swift. A sottish project; instead of feeding fifty, you starve a hundred.