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thereof wa? like the ruihing of mighty waters!

8. And there were st that time a com- pany of merchants in the tov/n of Lud,* that ancient city, who had a navy of fhips that went once in three years to a far country to trafEc with the merchants of the Eail for the India?! weed. .

9. And the merchants sold the weed to the people of the kingdom of Britain at a cer- tain price, and it brought rauch v/ealth into the treasury of the king.

10.: Notwithftanding it was no better thnn the herbage of the fiehl, or the "hysop which groweth in the garden of the husbandman; yet the people loved to have it so.

II. Nov/ llie v.'onicn of \\ic land put th.^ weed into rinz earthen vessels, and they pu-: water into the vessels, and they poured oiu drink ciieriii'^^s thereof into cuds of enamel

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 * Lonvlcn arieletilly called Liui,?.-rter a ki?.,q of &'\t