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Purpurea intexti[3] tollunt aulœa Britanni.
Georg. 3, v. 25.
Which interwoven Britains seem to raise,
And shew the Triumph that their Shame displays.
Histories of all our former Wars are transmitted to us in our Vernacular Idiom, to use the Phrase of a great Modern Critick
. I do not find in any of our Chronicles, that
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