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 neckes, nor to chase them in, but to rose them out, to eede them, not to rake them; nor to treacle them done, but to digge them up. This lesson the Tyrant himselfe hath taught mee, I once demaunded him in a parable, by hat good husbandry the Land might bee ridde of certaine Crowes that annoyed it, hee advised to atche here they bred, and to fire the nestes about their eares. Goe ee then upon these Cormorants that shrowde themselves in our possessions, and let us destroy them so, that neither nest, norroote, norseede, nor stalke, nor stubbe may remaine of this ungracious generation;

Scarce had he spoken the ord, but ith great showtes and clamours, they extolled the King as patron of their lives and families, assured both courage and expedition, joyned their confederates, and with a running campe, sept every corner of the Land, razed the castles to the ground, & chased the strangers before them, sle all that abode the battaile, recovered each man his one precinct and former state of government. The Irish delivered of slavery, fell to their old vomit in persecuting one another, & having lately defaced their fortified castles & tons, as coverts to the enemy; al sides lay now more open in harmes ay. This considered, the Princes that in the late rule of Turgesius espied some towardnesse to wealth and ease, began to discourse the madnesse of their fathers, who could not see the use of that hich their enemies abused, they began to loathe their unquietnesse, to wish