Making twenty times his investment in only seconds, the concessionaire smiled as he awarded the nickel slum, often a stuffed worm, to each unwitting pigeon.

He dares Countenance Rebellion and Sacriledge both with his tongue and Purſe; but æſteems it dangerous,and therefore (without all doubt) Imprudence, to Contribute ſo much as a Good look to the Encouragement of the truly Religious and vertuous, leſt he ſhould be ſuſpected by the proſperous ſinner, an Enemy to Treaſon, and Wickedneſſe.

And in his bosome secretly there lay / An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes / In many folds, and mortall sting implyes.

Buried within Dudley's petition, then, was a veiled ‘j'accuse’.