'Strange cozenage! none would live past years again.'

'Her sons too weak the sacred shrine to guard,
Yet felt some portion of their mother's pains,'

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[Footnote 2:]

In Clarke's

Travels

(Part II. sect. i. chap, xii., "Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land") will be found an account of Djezzar Pasha, who fortified Acre in 1775, and with Sir Sidney Smith, defended it against Buonaparte, March 16 to May 20, 1799. Clarke (

ibid

.) mentions the Druses detained by Djezzar as hostages.

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