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6. They went away* in companies; they were not obeJient to the voice of the chief captain: the poifon of their example fpread itfclf through the holl, and the fear of the men of Britain prevailed in the hearts of ma- ny, who had boafted of what great things they virould do in the hour of trial!

7. While they were at home in their cotta- ges, they had heard of the fame of the warri- or; it was their mediation by day when their hands were in their labor, and in the nio-ht feafon when deep fleep falleth upon man, the vifions of their heads upon their beds, were of camps and inftruments of v/ar!

■ 8. The phantom of imagination prefented to their view, whole armies overthrown by their fingle arm! The pleafing viiion iollowed them to the field; it haunted them in their occupations; they cad away with indigna-- tion, the hoe and the mattock, and graibed the arms of the warrior!

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