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of Columbia, who were like the heath in the defert, they knev/ not whence good came» Thefe men fpake againft the chief captain, in- afmuch as he did not force his way into the town where the army of the men of Britain w^ere encamped.

5. Neverthelefs, he bore with thefe men, and anfvvered them not again; he trode in thefootfteps oi Fabius^ who went out againfl the Carthagenians, and by his wifdom faved the Roman pec^le from falling a prey to their enemies.

6. His wants were many, but he kept the door of his lips, left peradventure, the ene- mies of Columbia (hould hear thereof : the cogitations of his heart were deep and ponder- ous.

7. Now the deftroying engines in the army of Columbia, were idle, for the black duft- begaa to fail : but it came to pafs, that the

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