The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

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Nor for so many injuries—words;

Nor for so many follies—cures.[10]

All these misfortunes,

We Christians must suffer;

For powerless we see—

Justice, words, and cures.

What results finally?—Resolution.

And from these evil things?—Punishments.

And from so great discontent?—Torment.

Not in vain do I lament,