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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK IV
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Some said, he [James] was now a prisoner, and remembered the saying of King Charles the First, that the prisons and the graves of princes lay not far distant from one another: The person of the King was now struck at, as well as his government: And this specious undertaking would now appear to be only a disguised and designed usurpation .-- _Swift._ All this is certainly true.
P.803._Burnet_.

Now that the Prince was come, all the bodies about the town came to welcome him....

Old Serjeant Maynard came with the men of the law.

He was then near ninety, and yet he said the liveliest thing that was heard of on that occasion.

The Prince took notice of his great age, and said, "that he had outlived all the men of the law of his time:" He answered, "He had like to have outlived the law itself, if his Highness had not come over."-- _Swift_.


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