methinks I scent the morning air.

I HOPE this Interruption may præſume ſome Prætenſions of a Pardon, after You have been pleas’d to conſider the Prævaling Motives of my many Obligations.[…]He Had then out Rival’d his Neighbour’s Prætenſions, and far beyond a Mauſolæum of Braſs, and Marble, extended a Living Monument of Himſelf round the Globe, to the Aſſiſtance of the Beſt Familys, and the perpetual Advantage of England.

The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.

Yet, I have long tried to unadorn Myself for you. I would toss all the trinkets And lavalieres into a box to escape Worshiping.