Both long and short, both light and Tite Oates!
He is thus stigmatized as one of Absalom's nine worthies:
Last Corah, unexhausted mine of plots,
Incredible to all but knaves and sots;
He surely may for a new Sampson pass,
That kills so sure with jaw-bone of an ass.
[326] Examen, p. 223.
[327] Ibid. p. 254.
[328] Ibid. p. 225.
[329] This man told a fable of forty thousand Spanish pilgrims, who were to invade Britain, and eke of a number of black bills, wherewith the Irish Catholics were to be armed. Some wag has enumerated his discoveries in the verses entitled, "Funeral Tears upon the Death of Captain William Bedlow:"