Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…

Once more; How many Women have been made a prey to those Brutish men, that are Skilful to Destroy? How many a Fearful Thing has been suffered by the Fearful Sex, from those men, that one would Fear, as Devils rather than men? Let the Daughters of our Zion think with themselves, what it would be, for fierce Indians to break into their Houses, and brain their Husbands and their Children before their Eyes, and Lead them away a Long Journey into the Woods; and if they began to fail and faint in the Journey, then for a Tawny Salvage to come with Hell fire in his Eyes, and cut 'em down with his Hatchet; or, if they could miraculously hold out, then for some Filthy and ugly Squaw's to become their insolent Mistresses, and insolently ⟨p. 221⟩to abuse 'em at their pleasure a thousand inexpressible ways; and, if they had any of their Sucking Infants with them, then to see those Tender Infants handled at such a rate, that they should beg of the Tigers, to dispatch 'em out of hand. Such things as these, I tell you, have often happened in this Lamentable War. And now, O ye Handmaids of the Lord; will you not be so wise, as to Observe these things? But upon the Observation, say, Well, I will Bless God, for my Enjoyments; my Afflictions, be they never so many, are not such as my Neighbours have seen: My Enjoyments are more than my Afflictions. But, Oh! Let me Love and Serve the Good God, that has distinguished me with His Mercies.

Once more; How many Women have been made a prey to those Bruitish men, that are Skilful to Destroy? How many a Fearful Thing has been suffered by the Fearful Sex, from those men, that one would Fear, as Devils rather than men? Let the Daughters of our Zion think with themselves, what it would be, for fierce Indians to break into their Houses, and brain their Husbands and their Chi•dren before their Eyes, and Lead them away a Long Journey into the Woods; and if they began to fail and faint in the Journey, then for a Tawny Salvage to come with Hell fire in his Eyes, and cut 'em down with his Hatchet; or, if they could miraculously hold out, then for some Filthy and ugly Squaw's to become their insolent Mistresses, and insolently ⟨p. 221⟩to abuse 'em at their pleasure a thousand inexpressible ways; and, if they had any of their Sucking Infants with them, then to see those Tender Infants handled at such a rate, that they should beg of the Tygres, to dispatch 'em out of hand. Such things as these, I tell you, have often happened in this Lamentable War. And now, O ye Handmaids of the Lord; will you not be so wise, as to Observe these things? But upon the Observation, say, Well, I will Bless God, for my Enjoyments; my Afflictions, be they never so many, are not such as my Neighbours have seen: My Enjoyments are more than my Afflictions. But, Oh! Let me Love and Serve the Good God, that has distinguished me with His Mercies.