By heaven, I verily believe if he were only to employ you to draw him up a lease for a year, he would never be able to get out of your clutches as lo… - Joseph Ritson

But I am sure you will agree with me that truth should be preferred to all things and sacrificed to nothing; and that a single fact is worth a hundred conjectures.

Wolleys reflection on your proposal of drawing under the bar is certainly just...if it had not been for that little dirty place in the Savoy, I should most probably at this moment have been either in a jail, an attorneys office, or stationers shop; and it would be hard to say which of those situations is the worst.

Your reflections are still worse founded, and could only arise from your considering me in the light of a pettyfogging attorney.