is

[boring]

me to present their King's Bench petition. I presented Cartwright's last year; and Stanhope and I stood against the whole House, and mouthed it valiantly—and had some fun and a little abuse for our opposition. But "I

[am]

not i' th' vein"

[5]

for this business. Now, had —— been here, she would have

made

me do it.

There