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"This Campaign I have had no beatific vision, in the style of Moses.

The barbarous Cossacks and Tartars, infamous to look at on any side, have burnt and ravaged countries, and committed atrocious inhumanities.

This is all I saw of THEM.

Such melancholy spectacles don't tend to raise one's spirits.
[Breaks off into metre:] LA FORTUNE INCONSTANTE ET FIERE, Fortune inconstant and proud.