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Excerpt from Ireland in London
As to Ireland, they know little more of it than they do of Mexico further than it is a country subiect to the King of England, lull of bogos. In habited by wild Irish Papists, who are kept in awe by mercenary troops sent from thence. And their general opinion is, that it were better for England if this whole island were sunk into the sea. For they have a tradition that every forty years there must be a rebellion in Ireland. I have seen the grossest suppositions pass upon them that the wild Irish were taken in toils, but that, in some time, they would grow so tame as to eat out of your hands. 1 have been asked by hundreds whether I had come Ireland by sea: and, upon the arrival of an Irish man to a country town, I have known crowds coming about him, and wondering to see him look so much better than themselves.
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