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...knavery original: "-erie"; likely completing "knavery" or "treachery" from the previous page, and this is true by the word of an honest man. Without question, your honesty breaks out at your backside original: "Breech", for it certainly does not appear in your book. It seems indeed your ethics are very sound, for you are such an enemy to immorality as Jude 9 A biblical reference to the Archangel Michael disputing with the Devil over the body of Moses. Vaughan implies More is as "pious" as the Devil. the Devil was when he disputed about the body of Moses. I will present you with a sample original: "specimen" (as you word it) of your own politeness original: "Civilities". See here the courtship and manners original: "addresses" of your pamphlet.
You call me (who am a Christian) one who is like Simon Magus A biblical figure who tried to buy spiritual power; an accusation of being a sorcerer or charlatan., a hot-head original: "heated nodle", a blockhead original: "Mome", a mimic, an ape, a mere animal, a snail, a philosophical hog, a skin-flint original: "Nip-crust" — a miser who trims the crusts off bread to save money, a pickpocket, a miserly Tom-fool original: "niggard Tom fool" with a devil’s head and horns, and someone who desires to be a sorcerer original: "Conjurer" more than a Christian.
All these "good and sober" moral principles original: "Moralities" I find in your first part, which consists of twenty-one small pages but is stuffed with fourteen intolerable, beastly ideas original: "notions", besides other endless flights and absurdities. But despite all these abuses, you tell me in your observations upon my address original: "Advertisement" to the reader, “That you have been very fair with me, and though provoked, you will con—” The text cuts off mid-word ("continue"), mirroring the catchword at the bottom of the original page.