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means of any of these quarrels or titles ; and that is 

 contracted by the fear that almost all nations have 

 of their ambition, whereof men see no end. And 

 thus much for the balancing of their forces. 



For the last point, which is the choice of the de 

 signs and enterprises, in which to conduct the war ; 

 you will not now speak, because you should be 

 forced to descend to divers particulars, whereof some 

 are of a more open, and some of a more secret 

 nature. But that you would move the house to 

 make a selected committee for that purpose ; not to 

 estrange the house in any sort, but to prepare things 

 for them, giving them power and commission to call 

 before them, and to confer with any martial men or 

 others that are not of the house, that they shall think 

 fit, for their advice and information : and so to give 

 an account of the business to a general committee of 

 the whole house. 



