'Further, you have also, to the terror of the town of Mansoul,
threatened with great and sore destructions to punish this
corporation, if she consents not to do as your wills would have
her.
'Now, captains, from whencesoever you come, and though your designs
be ever so right, yet know ye that neither my Lord Diabolus, nor I,
his servant, Incredulity, nor yet our brave Mansoul, doth regard
either your persons, message, or the King that you say hath sent
you. His power, his greatness, his vengeance, we fear not; nor
will we yield at all to your summons.
'As for the war that you threaten to make upon us, we must therein
defend ourselves as well as we can; and know ye, that we are not
without wherewithal to bid defiance to you; and, in short, (for I
will not be tedious,) I tell you, that we take you to be some
vagabond runagate crew, that having shaken off all obedience to
your King, have gotten together in tumultuous manner, and are
ranging from place to place to see if, through the flatteries you
are skilled to make on the one side, and threats wherewith you
think to fright on the other, to make some silly town, city, or
country, desert their place, and leave it to you; but Mansoul is
none of them.
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