And by and by comes in Matt Wren
[Matthew Wren, eldest son of the Bishop of Ely of both his names,
M.P. for St. Michael's 1661, and made Secretary to Lord
Clarendon; after whose fall he filled the same office under the
Duke of York till his death in 1672. He was one of the earliest
Members of the Royal Society, and published two tracts in answer
to Harrington's Oceana.] from the Parliament-House; and tells us
that he and all his party of the House, which is the Court party,
are fools, and have been made so this day by the wise men of the
other side; for after the Court party had carried it yesterday so
powerfully for the Paper Bill, yet now it is laid aside wholly,
and to be supplied by a land-tax; which it is true will do well
and will be the sooner finished, which was the great argument for
the doing of it. But then it shows them fools, that they would
not permit this to have been done six weeks ago, which they might
have had. And next they have parted with the Paper Bill, which
when once begun might have proved a very good flower in the
Crowne, as any there.
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