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Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…
Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governor in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governour in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.
London: printed by Sam. Bridge for Nath. Hiller, 1697
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Nor did His Excellency seem loath to have had his Case Tried under the Brazen Tree of Gariac, if there had been such an one, as that mentioned by the Fabulous Murtadi, in his Prodigies of Egypt, a Tree which had Iron Branches with sharp Hooks at the End of them, that when any false Accuser approached, as the Fable says, immediately flew at him, and stuck in him, until he had ceased Injuring his Adversary.
Nor did His Excellency seem loath to have had his Case Tried under the Brazen Tree of Gariac, if there had been such an one, as that mentioned by the Fabulous Murtadi, in his Prodigies of Aegypt, a Tree which had Iron Branches with sharp Hooks at the End of them, that when any false Accuser approached, as the Fable says, immediately flew at him, and stuck in him, until he had ceased Injuring his Adversary.
Wherefore in Obedience unto the Kings Commands, he took his leave of Boston on the seventeenth of November, 1694. attended with all proper Testimonies of Respect and Honour from the Body of the People, which he had been the Head unto; and with Addresses unto their Majesties, and the Chief Ministers of State from the General Assembly, humbly imploring, that they might not be deprived of the Happiness which they had in such an Head.
Arriving at White-Hall, he found in a few Days, that notwithstanding all the Impotent Rage of his Adversaries particularly vented and Printed in a Villainous Libel, as well as almost in as many other ways, as there are Mouths, at which Fayal sometimes has vomited out its Infernal Fires, he had all Humane Assurance of his returning in a very few Weeks again, the Governor of New-England.
Arriving at White-Hall, he found in a few Days, that notwithstanding all the Impotent Rage of his Adversaries particularly vented and Printed in a Villanous Libel, as well as almost in as many other ways, as there are Mouths, at which Fyal sometimes has vomited out its Insernal Fires, he had all Humane Assurance of his returning in a very few Weeks again, the Governour of New-England.