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you may be sure, fen it receives for purgation all true Catholics; who are de most numerous people 'pon face of de earth: For beside all France nor Spain, nor Italy, nor Rome, are Catholics, dere are a great many more, who are dispersed through de kingdoms of de world; de Protestants themshelves, phen dey count heads vid ush, find to dere great shorrow, dat we are more dan two turds of the inhabitants of Ireland, who are profest Cathos; beside a great many more, who, for getting into de revenue, and de oder advantageous hosts, have called demshelves Proptestants (and by de shoul of my dear gossip dere are a very great numbers of dem too,) but are true Roman Catho's in deir harts, who will get indulgence from de Pope, have de priest, and de administration of holy oyle at deir dead, and vill get de benefit of Purgatory, and de benefit of de clergy, so vell as any of you all, and dish make one half of t'oder turd, so dat you shee dere are but a very few who are our hearty enemies, most of which are dam'd black phiggish Phipsyterians; oh, oh, the devil run away with them all.
But here, by de bye, you may observe phat a parcel of poor-spirited, cowardly-hearted sons of whores of bitches are we, to be so long keep down by parcel of damn'd hereticks; if we would but take courage and begin, dey vill be noting in our hands; but if we submit vid a slavish subshection to deir heretick government, ark hinder to carry arms, made mere soles to deir brogues—but by my own shoul we vill have our day about vid dem yet.—Our plots vill at last succeed: de king of Spain, and de king of France,
