Thee with no pleasant message now to meet;

Nor hath our Winslow in his charge forgot

(For his behest I bear and words repeat)

His former friendship, but right loth is he

To vex his neighbors by obliging thee.

XLII.

“In short, thou art on Plymouth’s own domain;

Beyond the Seekonk is the forest free,—

This must thou leave, but there thou mayst maintain

Thy State unharmed, and still our neighbor be;