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The praise of peace

A poem. In Three cantos. From the Dutch of M. Van Haren, one of the Deputies of the Province of West-Friesland in the Assembly of their High Mightinesses the States General [by Samuel Boyse]
  
  
  

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Et nomen Pacis dulce est & ipsa res salutaris, sed inter Pacem & Servitutem plurimum interest. Pax est tranquilla Libertas, Servitus autem malorum omnium extremum non modo bello, sed etiam morte repellendum. Cicero.