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Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian salvages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. Faithfully composed and improved. [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
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The History is indeed of no very Fine Thread; and the Readers, who every where Fish for nothing but Carps, and who Love, like Augustus to Tax all the World, may find Fault enough with it. Nevertheless, while the Fault of an Untruth can't be found in it, the Author pretends, that the famous History of the Trojan War it self, comes behind our little History of the Indian War; ⟨p. 8⟩For the best Antiquaries, have now confuted Homer; the Walls of Troy were it seems, all made of Poets Paper; and the Siege of the Town with the Tragedies of the Wooden Horse, were all but a piece of Poetry.
The History is indeed of no very Fine Thred; and the Readers, who every where Fish for nothing but Carps, and who Love, like Augustus to Tax all the World, may find Fault enough with it. Nevertheless, while the Fault of an Untruth can't be found in it, the Author pretends, that the famous History of the Trojan War it self, comes behind our little History of the Indian War; ⟨p. 8⟩For the best An•iquaries, have now confuted Homer; the Walls of Troy were it seems, all made of Poets Paper; and the Siege of the Town with the Tragedies of the Wooden Horse, were all but a piece of Poetry.
And if a War between Us, and an Handful of Indians, do appear no more than a Batrachomyomachie, to the World abroad yet unto us at home, it hath been considerable-enough, to make an History. Nor is the Author afraid of promising, that of all the Thirty Articles which make up this History, there shall not be One, without something in it, that may by our selves be justly thought Considerable.