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

All the Favour he desires of you, is, That you would not Enquire after him; or a•k, who he is? but that, as he is at best, but an Obscure Person, he may continue in yet more Obscurity: which will be a greater pleasure to him than to be ⟨p. 5⟩placed among the Great men of Achaia.

For indeed, He hath often thought on a passage written by Holy Mr. Row, to his Excellent S•n, I pray, That God would make use of my self and you, in such a way, as that God only may be seen, and we not be ••ken notice of at all; that He may have the Glory and we may not be seen

Could […] have •••ited His EXCELLENCY, […] glorious •able, as that in a certain […] Florence, which is furnished with Birds and Flow••s, […] consisting of Neatly polished Jewels […] Work Fifteen years in making, and wo•th an Hundred Thousand Crowns: or could […] a Book, worthy to be […] of Darius: th• Author might have been under a Temptation to have had his Name Engraved upon his Work. But a little Build Indian Corn in a Tray, is as much as our Best History of an Indian War, composed perhaps in fewer Days, than there were Years in the War, may presume to be compared unto. And since our History will not afford such a Diversion unto His Excellency, under the Indispositions of His Health ▪ as those of Livy & Curtius did unto the Princes that Recovered their lost Health by Reading them; nor can any passage here be so happy, as That which cured Laurentius Medici of a Malady, by having it Read unto him: it will require no more than a Nameless Writer, to Assure that Great Person on this Occasion,