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vants twenty and four hours, then will v/e return an anfwer to all that thou had propofed.
20. And D^Esta'nig hearkened unto the words of Prevost^ for he knew not that he fpake the words of fubtilty; and he grant- ed the petition of the garrifon.
11 s And it came to pafs, that before the end of the given time, that Maiiland^ and the foldiers of the king of Britain, gat fafe into the hold; and the men of war ihouted with a great fiiout,
22. And on the evening of the fame day, the army of the people of the Provinces, un- der Lincoln, and the army of the king of Gaul, were joined together, and became one band.
23. And they befieged the hold, and raifed banks agalnil: it, and they planted the de- flroying engines on the banks which they had call up.
24» And the men of the garrifon fcrength-
