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24. The flam and wounded, and the cap- tives of the men of Britain, were in number, eleven hundred; and there fell in the battle, of the people of the Provinces, five hundred valiant men.

25. The way. faring man, as he paffeth by the field where the vaHant fought, will feel the rifmg figh! The darting tear will come, when he remembers the friend of his early days, who fell in the battle 1

26. The mother will often, with flow and forrowful fleps, vifit the fatal fpot! and mourn the lofs of the beloved of her youth, the partner of her cares! The children will hear the fad tale, and their wrath will rife at the name of Britain 1 O Albion! furely thy wife men v/ere infatuated, they ihut their eyes to their true intered, and became fools I

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