Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…

ALL this while CANAD A was as much written upon Sir William's Heart, as CALAIS, they said once, was upon Queen Maries. He needed not one to have been his daily Monitor about Canada: ⟨p. 53⟩It lay down with him, it rose up with him, it engrossed almost all his Thoughts; he thought the subduing of Canada, to be the greatest service that could be done for New-England, or for the Crown of England in America. In pursuance whereof, after he had been but a few Weeks at Home, he took another Voyage for England, in the very depth of Winter, when Sailing was now dangerous; conflicting with all the Difficulties of a tedious and a terrible Passage, in a very little Vessel, which indeed, was like enough to have perished, if it had not been for the help of his Generous Hand aboard, and His Fortunes in the bottom.

ALL this while CANAD A was as much written upon Sir William's Heart, as CALLICE, they said once, was upon Queen Maries. He needed not one to have been his daily Monitor about Canada: ⟨p. 53⟩It lay down with him, it rose up with him, it engrossed almost all his Thoughts; he thought the subduing of Canada, to be the greatest service that could be done for New-England, or for the Crown of England in America. In parsuance whereof, after he had been but a few Weeks at Home, he took another Voyage for England, in the very depth of Winter, when Satling was now dangerous; conflicting with all the Difficulties of a tedious and a terrible Passage, in a very little Vessel, which indeed, was like enough to have perished, if it had not been for the help of his Generous Hand aboard, and His Fortunes in the bottom.