You know that you were mine of old.
Remember also, that so long as you enjoyed me for your lord, and
that I enjoyed you for my subjects, you wanted for nothing of all
the delights of the earth, that I, your lord and prince, could get
for you, or that I could invent to make you bonny and blithe
withal. Consider, you never had so many hard, dark, troublesome,
and heart-afflicting hours, while you were mine, as you have had
since you revolted from me; nor shall you ever have peace again,
until you and I become one as before. But, be but prevailed with
to embrace me again, and I will grant, yea, enlarge your old
charter with abundance of privileges; so that your license and
liberty shall be to take, hold, enjoy, and make your own all that
is pleasant from the east to the west. Nor shall any of those
incivilities, wherewith you have offended me, be ever charged upon
you by me, so long as the sun and moon endure. Nor shall any of
those dear friends of mine that now, for the fear of you, lie
lurking in dens, and holes, and caves in Mansoul, be hurtful to you
any more; yea, they shall be your servants, and shall minister unto
you of their substance, and of whatever shall come to hand.
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