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Excerpt from The Acts and Negotiations, Together With the Particular Articles at Large, of the General Peace, Concluded at Ryswick, by the Most Illustrious Confederates With the French King: To Which Is Premised the Negotiations and Articles of the Peace, Concluded at Turin, Between the Same Prince and Duke of Savoy
Forcfaw the Prete�'cion of Seven Provinces would n0t bework enough for fo capacious a Soul: Hero's, through each degree, colle& and gather theirancefiorsperfefiions, to which they add their own, therefore I leis Prime is to be ally'd to the Englilh Crown, that this Tie might engage him to attend his Care to thefe I?ands, which and fuper?itiom' Bzgotfr] of Governors had been put into equal, if not more eminent Danger, than the tell of the Neighbouring W'orld. Impotence was their Excufe, we had Power, but the Force and Edge of it was turn'd upon our Selves. A N eighbour� ing Flood, that with'miferable great Defola; tion bad over-run part' of Europe, was with additional Force too near approaching to us: What Precaution did we ufe to prevent it? Our Workmen were digging down the Banks that fhould oppofe and keep it out, and feem'd to invite the Ruin. Here this Great Prime interpofes; he. Opens the Eyes of molt, and holds thehands of thole unfortunate Men that Frill continu'd blind or engag'd and kindly hinder'd ?em from doing Things, that tended to the Defi_ru&ion of both Them-5 felves and their Country. 'then in 1688. The mighty Scene opens, in 1689. The War begins. Power or Heaven for ionic time feem'd to favourgthe Might] Mews}; doubt lefs it was to try the Oppofer's Confiancy and let them know, That no Difal'te'rs or 5 1 Dill.
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