Who Plot Best, the Whigs or the Tories: Being a Brief Account of All the Plots That Have Happen'd Within These Thirty Years

Excerpt from Who Plot Best, the Whigs or the Tories: Being a Brief Account of All the Plots That Have Happen'd Within These Thirty Years

There has been no Plot, either fmail or great, that happen'd when you flourifb'd, but you may lawfully claim the Merit of it; and your Services in that Point to the feveral fucccfiive Minifiries in the Reign of King Charles the Second have made it the common Con jeeiure, that you were never fo fafe as when you feem'd moi't in Danger; and that you have been paid by them according to the Efficacy of every Plot, and the Heads which were taken off by it. Thus it is faid you have always been provided of Plots, and have fold 'em Ready-made as the cheaper Commodity: But when the Times have' flood in need of a fubf'tantial Conf piracy, which has requir'd much Thought, and to be well labour'd and attef'ted, you have then rais'd the Price, and giv'n more of your Brains to it, than for a Common Plot; fuch as the alenl-tue, rye-haul}, Irzfl) Mdflhcre; and lancaflrire-plotr.

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