Magia Adamica, or The Antiquitie of Magic

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Moores, wherefore I shall rectify your judgment in this point: I am indeed more like Simon Peter, for I am a true Christian, and no schismatic. But alas, you have something to prove it—a "liquorish desire" Suggesting a greedy or lustful craving for status. that I have to be thought some great man in the world. And why a "liquorish desire"? Do I desire some liquor when I desire greatness? You did not learn this epithet in Cambridge; she pours no such liquor out of her pocula sacra Latin: "sacred cups.". But I pass by your foolishness and tell you plainly: I will be as great as truth can possibly make me. I cannot, indeed, further prosecute this desired greatness without first thanking you for your "designs," whereby it seems it is to be obtained. Pray, Mastix, let us hear them, for since the projects are yours, I believe I never studied them before.

First then, I must—as you say—"be thought to have found out some new truths hitherto undiscovered." If it is your belief that I have found out truths never known to anyone whatsoever before me, it is a malicious, willful slander, for nothing is mentioned