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Whether there was so much as six hours dispute or no I doubt, however, i'le not cal you to Account f•…•… this▪ but excuseyou, for sith you counted every hour seven till you were gone, it might well seem to you no less then 16. yet Sirs give me leave, was there indeed six hours, and more past all in 'Disputation? I pray Sir•…•…, what's b•…•…me of the odd five and a half? did you press them to death ith' Press, or lose them ith' Ashes, whetein you had a design to have smothered it all? for as clean as you would seem to have rak't it out, here's no more return'd to give Account of it self then this small parcell, which is scarce the tenth: See there∣fore that the rest be forth coming, for here is but meer Pigmee semi-demi doings: and besides gentlemen, me things your tale hangs not handsomely together with the thing told, for, if there were six hours work indeed, how is it you repeat no more? or if there were no more then this half an hours reading, how is it you give so large an Account of it here? or must we conceive you to have two true Ac∣counts, one in this cl•…•…use, which stories the length of the Dispute to be six hours, the other in your book it self, which disputes ore all that long dispute a∣gain before the world, that it might have the true cognizance of it, in little more then the sixth part of one? of which two true Acounts (for so you would have us account them to be both) if the one be a true Account then for certain (sith they come not neer one another, by five hours, and an half) the other is a false true one, or a true false one which you please, for howbeit, a man may of a six hours discour•…•…e say in the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in less then six mi•…•…its that it was six hours long, and that there were many Arguments, and Answers in it, yet if he take on him to relate ore the Discourse it self, and the Arguments and Answers them∣selves, and account (as you pretend to do) pro toto integrali, at least for the most materiall parts thereof, he must either afford it more then six times six mi∣•…•…its space to play in, and that's more then you have allow'd your Account, or else 'twas a long nothing indeed. Some creepholes I see you make for your selves, whereat to get out from the shame of that disproportion between your words here, which are S•…•…squi-pedalia, shewing the work to be six hours long, and the work it self, which is like a Span; for you tell us in your Preface, tis but a short Relation you pretend to; yet know Sirs that too little is too little in all consci∣ence: neither can you lick your selves whole of all absurdity; whilst in two seve∣veral sententious Descriptions you speak of no less then six hours, so hoysing up your Reader into an Expecttaion of something worth looking after, and then shut him off with this Skeleton, or short shew of •…•…lf the sum, but some of one half, some scra•…•…s, and broken bits of the bu•…•…ss, whereof the fag-end of all, viz. how rhe bells began to play their parts against our preaching, when you had done, by the appointment of who knows not whom? a matter as well worth hearing as much of yours, is left out altogether: so then Sirs, here's two Accounts of your Dispute, a long-short one, and a short-long one, for tis Epitomiz'd well nigh to nothing: sith tis as tis, you might do well, unless you can help's to