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Excerpt from A True Relation of the Cruelties and Barbarities of the French, Upon the English Prisoners of War: Being a Journal of Their Travels From Dinan in Britany, to Thoulon in Provence, and Back Again
Andfotfalegn of all Men, that he had not fit much a: a Man that would kill him upon hi: own requefi: Nee amicum habeo, nec inimrcum; z. E. I have never a Friend nor Enemy. Jrgijb it had happened with ur, the People of En gland, but that it pleafed the Almight ty God of be: great goodne/i to fettle the Crown cf thefe Kingdom: upon the Head: of thi: Royal Pair, William and Mary, in'that mutable time when the very breath of the Faiiiou: had/h much di/iurbed the Azr, that the Sea: became dangerou: to al7 thet Navigated 5 that thenftbey put a ?op to the full Career of thi: Tyrant': Fwy, whom nothing elfe muff have ferved, but a S ea of Innocent Blood. Then, fince t_t hath fl) pleafed God to avert that great judgment which wa: hovering over thi: Land, which tended to no lef: than the abjhlute Overthrow ofjboth Church and State and on the other fide, hath given it: a nurfing-father and Mother, to fizeu're u: fizfe under their jhadow5 let none of u: therefore, Eriglilll-men, whom the matter doth concern, that lay ary Claim or Title to the Heroical Blood qf the Bmtams, who/h Valour hath formerly run'through the whole W'orld, and hath eclzpfid the Glory of France more than once 5 let none therefore, that putteth hi: hand to thi: Plough, lookbacks ffpfclally now they fee the Example: of cur Renowned Monarch: revived viz.) thofe of Edward 111. And Of Henry V. Who to re deem the (bring Hmoyr of England, expof�d themfelve: to thegreatdl danger:, and came not hackempty-handed 5 for it i: fazd, Audentes fortuna juvat 5' i. E. Fortune helps the Bold. Let it: therefore fet God and the Gofpel': Purity before u: 5 and let That he the chief Mark we aim at 5 and without doubt, by God': A?i?ance, we may eclipfiz the Glory of Louis le Grand, a: he i: now jlzled. I do not doubt but it will fare with my poor Endeavour: injhi: Boook, a: it hath fared with thofe of ten thou/and time: more worth to be carp'd at by fame of the Critick: of rhi: Age, who can fitoner find Ten Fault: in the zillion: of another perfon, than mend one in themfilven 1 have not one word to fay in the praife of it, it being buta rough thing, and not fit well pole/bed a: if it had been done by a more rkilful hand 5 and befide:, my great trouble and wearinlej} of Body, when the fix thing: were colleaed together5 my right-hand being chained, in which I held my Pen for thirty feven day: together When all thefe thing: are confidered rightly, it will render me the more excufable. Tet I have thie to fay, Although it i: not put ia toa lofty S tile, o: might have been done by another Man; yet I amfure that what it in it ufotrue, that it i: able to contend with Truth it felf 5 and therefore I hope that Truth i: not to be de fpz'fed, although ?iebe but in a p15? Daft. I fhall therefore deftre you to take thi: notice a: you read, for your better under?anding of fbme particular: which i: not' known to every Man: The Sirdenafigmfiei a fmall F zjh, a little bigger than. A Sprat and anfirr Beverage, that i: meant Vinegar and Water, or Wine and Water; Denlres i: aljh fpoken of very qftcn, which i: the final Money of that Country, of which Twelve make: one Soufe, or Penny Engli?lr 490 wtjhing you more pleafure i\a the reading, than I. Had in the writing, I Jake my leave, and.
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