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

ARTICLE XII. An Indian Fort or Two, taken, and some other Actions.

Reader, I remember the prolixity of Guicciardine, the Historian, gave such Offence, that Boccalini, brings in an Offender at Verbosity, Ordered for his punishment by the Judges at Parnassus, to Read that punctual Historian; but the poor Fellow begged rather to be Flayed alive, than to be Tortured with Reading an Historian, who in relating the War between the Florentines and Pisans, made longer Narrations, about the Taking of a Pigeon House, than there needed of the most Fortified Castle in the World. For this cause, let me be excused, Reader, if I make short Work, in our Story, and Leave the Honest ⟨p. 76⟩Actors themselves to Run over Circumstances more at large, with their Friends by the Fireside.

REader, I remember the prolixity of Guicciardine, the Historian, gave such Offence, that Boccalini, brings in an Offender at Verbosity, Ordered for his punishment by the Judges at Pernassus, to Read that punctual Historian; but the poor Fellow begg'd rather to be Flay'd alive, than to be Tortured with Reading an Historian, who in relating the War between the Florentines and Pisans, made longer Narrations, about the Taking of a Pigeon House, than there needed of the most Fortified Castle in the World. For this cause, let me be excused, Reader, if I make short Work, in our Story, and Leave the Honest ⟨p. 76⟩Actors themselves to Run over Circumstances more at large, with their Friends by the Fireside.