All those were immediately consented to.

I was forthwith knighted, and promised the other two.
"I now mounted the hustings, and, without any regard to decency or modesty, made as emphatical a speech in favor of the king as before I had done against him.

In this speech I justified all those measures which I had before condemned, and pleaded as earnestly with my fellow-citizens to open their purses, as I had formerly done to prevail with them to keep them shut.

But, alas! my rhetoric had not the effect I proposed.

The consequence of my arguments was only contempt to myself.