text:  He no longer pretended in fact to any fairness or justice in his dealings; for though those who sided with him might be guilty of all the offences in the calendar Jack continued to wink so hard and shut his ears so close as not to see or hear of them; while as to the unhappy wights who differed from him he had the eyes of Argus and the ear of Dionysius and the tender mercies of a Spanish inquisitor discovering _scandalum magnatum_ and high treason in ballads which they had written twenty years before and in which Jack though he received a presentation copy at the time had never pretended up to that moment to detect the least harm