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&quot; lastly, we have circuits or visits of divers principal cities of the 

 kingdom, where, as it comcth to pass, we do publish such new profit- 

 able inventions as we think good. And we do also declare natural 

 divinations of diseases, plagues, swarms of hurtful creatures, scarcity, 

 tempests, earthquakes, great inundations, comets, temj&amp;gt;craturc of the 

 year, and divers other things ; and we give counsel thereupon what 

 the people shall do for the prevention and remedy of them.&quot; 



And when he had said this, he stood up : and 1, as I had been 

 taught, kneeled down, and he laid his right hand upon my head, and 

 said, * God bless thcc, my son, and God bless this relation which I 

 have made ; I give thcc leave to publish it for the good of other 

 nations: for we here arc in God s bosom, a land unknown.&quot; AH! so he 

 left me, having assigned a value of about two thousand ducats for a 

 bounty o me and my fellows ; for they give great largesses where they 

 come upon all occasions. 



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