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iliort, the Villages all around were in a flame, 

 and the Streets oi Narva were filled with Country- 

 women, who fate under the Eves of Houfes 

 crying, with their Children and Houiliold Goods 

 by them, their Hu {bands and Brothers being all 

 in Arms, purfuant to the King's Placart, which 

 was fixed up in the Market-place. Our Ship 

 carried off about an hundred of thefe Women and 

 Children, with their Beds, Pots, Spits, &c. land- 

 ing them at Revel : And one of our Sailors mar- 

 ried one of thefe Women there, though he had 

 never feen her before ihe came on board us, and 

 was to flay but two or three days with her after 

 Marriage ; he was either a 'Dutchman or Liibecker, 

 I never reflect upon this difmal (horrid) fcene, 

 without calling to mind Milton^ Book ii. line 

 638. 



He look'd^ and faiv ivide T'erritory /pre ad 

 Before him^ T'o\vns and 'Rural Works between. 

 Cities of Men uith lofty Gates and I'ow'rSy 

 Concourfe in Ar?ns, fierce Faces threat' ning War^ 

 Giants of mighty Bone and hold Emprize ; 

 Part 'weild their Arms^ part curb the foaming 



Steed 

 Single or iji Array of Battle ra?7g'd^ 

 Both liorfe and Foot^ nor idly ??niji' ring food -y 

 One "way a Band Jeletl from Forage drives 

 A herd of Beeves^ fair Oxen and fair Kine 



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