Roger L'Estrange

“ There must be Forms however, Characters, and Hard Words, Crabbbed Looks, and Canting Calculations, for the Colour of the Pretence; but People should have a Care yet, not to take a Confederacy for a Science. ”

“ Mercury went to Tiresias in the Shape of a Man, and the Tidings came as Mercury had Coatriv’d it: Upon This, he took Mercury up to a High Tower, Hard by, and bad him look Well about him, and tell him what Birds he saw. Why, says Mercury, I see an Eagle upon Wing there, that takes her Course from the Right-hand to the Left. That Eagle (says Tiresias) is nothing to Our Purpose; wherefore Pray look again once. Mercury stood Gazing a while, and then told Tiresias of a Crow he had Discover'd upon a Tree, that was One while looking up into the. ”