The next accusation is: “_That I will be very angry with all men that do not presently submit to my dictates; and that for advancing the reputation of my own skill, I care not what unworthy reflections I cast on others_.” This is in the epistle placed before the _Vindiciæ Academiarum_, subscribed by N S, as the plain song for H D in the rest of the book to descant upon. I know well enough the authors’ names; and am sorry that N S has lent his name to be abused to so ill a purpose. But how does this appear? What argument, what witness is there of it? You offer none; nor am I conscious of any. I begin to suspect since you, the professor of geometry, have in your objections to the twentieth chapter these words concerning “_Vindex, ocularis ille testis de quo hic agitur, erat, ni fallor, ille ipse_,”--that Vindex himself, in other company, has bestowed a visit on me. Seeing you will have me believe it, let it be so; and, as it is likely, not long after my return into England. At which time (for the reputation, it seems, I had gotten by my boasting) divers persons that professed to love philosophy and mathematics, came to see me; and some of them to let me see them, and hear and applaud what they applauded in themselves. I see now it hath happened to me with Vindex, as it happened to Dr. Harvey with Moranus. Moranus, a jesuit, came out of Flanders hither, especially, as he says, to see what learned men in divinity, ethics, physics, and geometry, were here yet alive, to the end that by discoursing with them in these sciences, he might correct either his own, or their errors. Amongst others he was brought, he says, to that most civil and renowned old man Dr. Harvey. That is very well. And in good earnest if he had made good use of the time which was very patiently afforded him, he might have learned of him (or of no man living) very much knowledge concerning the circulation of the blood, the generation of living creatures, and many other difficult points of natural philosophy. And if he had had anything in him but common and childish learning, he could have showed it nowhere more to his advantage, than before him that was so great a judge of such matters. But what did he? That precious time (which was but little, because he was to depart again presently for Flanders) he bestowed wholly in venting his own childish opinions, not suffering the Doctor scarce to speak; losing thereby the benefit he came for, and discovering that he came not to hear what others could say, but to show to others how learned he was himself already. Why else did he take so little time, and so misspend it? Or why returned he not again? But when he had talked away his time, and found (though patiently and civilly heard) he was not much admired, he took occasion, writing against me, to be revenged of Dr. Harvey, by slighting his learning publicly; and tells me that his learning was only experiments; which he says I say have no more certainty than civil histories. Which is false.