Your advice out of Aristophanes, I like very well; I am not conscious unto my self that I have towards you transgressed against it: for before I uttered a syllable of dislike, I used my best endeavor to finde out what was your meaning, and to that purpose, made use of that little Logick and Reason which I had; and as for that meaning which I assix unto your words, let the Reader determine, whether I have violated any rule of Logick or Reason, in imputing it unto you: What I took to be your sense, together with my Objections against it, I sent unto Mr. C. to be transmitted speedily unto you, exposing all unto the utmost severity of your ex∣amination; and wherein I have here trespassed against charity or justice, I would fain know.
Besides, my distike I expressed onely in a private place, before very few, in private discourse, and I have not hitherto published it, from either Press or Pulpit.