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IVcod/crd; howbeit their wounds were not unto death.

11. And there was yet another nobleman from the kingdom of Poland; and his name was Fcla/7;i : he was a mighty man of war.

12. Heconfpired againft the king his mafter, and took him captive from amidft the armed men who were his guards, and out of his

chief city where he dwelt,

13. He was like the fierce panther, that abideih in the forefts of Colum.bia! he feared not the face of man, neither regarded he the threatnings of the enemy i the ways of the warrior were open before him, and he flrew- ed the fields with heaps of ilain!

14. And 'it came to pafs after that thehoft of the people of the provinces had fled from the army of Britain, ihdit William, the chief cap- tain thereof, efiayed to get round the hoft of the people of the provinces on the right hand thereof.

15. But George^ the chid captain, perccir-