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more fpake and faid : It is expedient that we fend another captain in the room of Ho- ratio, that he may go forth before the men of war; fo will the fpirits of the people revive, and peradventure they will fland before their enemies. Speak therefore, all that is in thine heart, and fay if thou knowefl any man in tile hod of the people, that will anfwer the cxpe£lations and deHre of the princes of the Provinces.

6. Then anfwered George the chief captain, and faid : there is a man in the army of Co- lumbia, in whom is the fpirit of v/ifdom and underftanding, his name is Nathaniel; pru- dence walketh on his right hand, and inte- grity and perfcverance are his conllant com- panions.

7. And the princes of the Provinces heark- ened to the voice of the chief captain for they had determined beforehand, to remove Hora^ fiQ; inafmuch as he had fled from the fer- vants of the king, and his former fervices were not regarded. ^^^