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Here Happen’d a Bloudy Civil War once among the Hawks, and what did the Poor, Peaceable, Innocent Pigeons, but in Pure Pity, and Good Nature, end their Deputies and Mediators to do the Bet they could to make 'em Friends again, o long as This Feud Lated; they were o Intent upon Killing one another, that they Minded nothing ele; but no ooner was the Quarrel taken up among Themelves, then they fell to their Old port again of Detroying the Pigeons. This brought them to a Sight of their Error, and to Undertand the Danger of Uniting a Common Enemy to their Own Ruine,