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;