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Shall I advise you to a Treaty, than?
No: Tis not now, as when the War began.
Before the Tryall, your Trustees, did well
To treat for Peace; because, they could not tell
What might succeed; and, thought it safer, far,
To take some wrong, then seek redresse by War.
But, now, for them to Treat, were to admit
That, GOD, had past no Tryall for them, yet.
And, those, who thereto would perswade them, now,
I shall not for their wisest Friends allow,
If friends: For that, not only of their prizes
Defeats the Conquerors, but, equalizes
Them, likewise with the Conquer'd; and makes void,
What, should by right of Conquest, be injoyd.
No: Tis not now, as when the War began.
Before the Tryall, your Trustees, did well
To treat for Peace; because, they could not tell
What might succeed; and, thought it safer, far,
To take some wrong, then seek redresse by War.
But, now, for them to Treat, were to admit
That, GOD, had past no Tryall for them, yet.
And, those, who thereto would perswade them, now,
I shall not for their wisest Friends allow,
If friends: For that, not only of their prizes
Defeats the Conquerors, but, equalizes
Them, likewise with the Conquer'd; and makes void,
What, should by right of Conquest, be injoyd.
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