Before many weeks had passed there was no vituperative epithet that Leicester was not in the daily habit of bestowing upon Paul.

The Earl's vocabulary of abuse was not a limited one, but he exhausted it on the head of the Advocate.
He lacked at last words and breath to utter what was like him.

He pronounced his former friend "a very dangerous man, altogether hated of the people and the States;"-- "a lewd sinner, nursled in revolutions; a most covetous, bribing fellow, caring for nothing but to bear the sway and grow rich;"-- "a man who had played many parts, both lewd and audacious;"-- "a very knave, a traitor to his country;"-- "the most ungrateful wretch alive, a hater of the Queen and of all the English; a most unthankful man to her Majesty; a practiser to make himself rich and great, and nobody else;"-- "among all villains the greatest;"-- "a bolsterer of all papists and ill men, a dissembler, a devil, an atheist," a "most naughty man, and a most notorious drunkard in the worst degree." Where the Earl hated, his hatred was apt to be deadly, and he was determined, if possible, to have the life of the detested Paul.

"You shall see I will do well enough with him, and that shortly," he said.

"I will course him as he was not so this twenty year.