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Chap. 23. great misfortune to be robbed of our money, what is it then to be deprived of our houses and lands? And if it is grievous to be driven thence: what is it to be forced from our Country, our Temples and Altars? You might see some thousands of woful people hurryed away, children from their Parents, Masters from their Families, Wives from their Husbands, and thrown out into divers Countryes, as their lot designed them. Some amongst the thirsty Affricans, and as the Poet saith in this very case,

One single Octavianus Cæsar placed eight and twenty colonies in Italy only; and in the Provinces as many as he pleased. Nor was there any thing (I know) that was more destructive to the Gauls as Germans, and the Spaniards. Rh