verity

… but in the verity of extolment

I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion

of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of

him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would

trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

Absolutist verities were not only being challenged in more systematic and more daring forms than hitherto; the parameters of political debate were also being widened by both government and its critics.