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( 5 ) Promise and perfect prosperity, but ah dear shouls, they went out of the frying pan into the fire

And now who will buy my spectacles, by which you will see, and perceive by the printers black art, above and below the globe, the customs of kings, and command they have of their countries, the greatest king in the East, has it, that not a shoul dare take a bite of his own dinner until the king their master be full, and then at the ringing of the hungry bell, they fly all to dinner, like dogs on a dead horse—The Grand Turk with one word of his mouth, can take off a great man's head, and put on another; The Pope can curse his whole Clergy to the low regions: The Great King of Prusia can make the noblest man in his dominions cringe like a spaniel dog: The French King, if one of his parliamenters wray his mouth, or hing his lip at him, can put him into the Bastile, and whip him into perfect obedience: Great Britain itself, in the days of William Rufus the Conqueror, had not only all to go to bed, but to piss out their fires and candles at the ringing of the Curfeu bell.

But now you see the liberty they take to drink, rant, whore and roar night and day, they told me the king is our head commander, but I don't believe it, for he must keep in his house night and day, and guards to keep him in too: Ah, dear heart, when lately viewed the school of law at London, they were all in a hubbub, like scholars when their master's out, tearing, jeering, and domineering at one another: Arra, thinks I, this is like a Machara fair, they are all drunk, and on the eve of a battle, some call the Americans brave fellows, and government had used them badly, others called them rebels and traitors, and that they had been too well used, and too much lenity and liberty shewn them, brought them to what they are now about; What, thinks I,