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TALES OF MY LANDLORD.

like a beggar to a bridal, in order to give my loving countrymen the advantage of that experience which I have acquired in foreign parts. So your lordship has an outline of my brief story, excepting those passages of action in the field, in leaguers, storms, and onslaughts, whilkwould be wearisome to narrate, and might, peradventure, better befit any other tongue than mine own."