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ſooneſt to be found:The Streets of this fair Here is the Brittain Row, the French Row, the Italian Row, the Spaniſh Row, the German Row, where ſeveral forts of Vanities are to be fold. But as in of ther fairs ſome one Commodity in as the chief of all the fair, ſo the Wars of Rome and her Merchandize is greatly promoted in this fair: Only our Engliſh Nation, with ſome others have taken a diſlike thereat.

1 Cor. 510.Chirſt went through this fair}}Now, as I ſaid, the way to the Cæleſtial City lyes juſt thorow this Town, where this luſty Fair is kept and he that will go to the City, am yet not go thorow this Town, muſt needs go out of the World. The Prince of Princes himſelf, when here, went through this Town to his own Countrey, and that upon a Fair-day too Mat. 4. 8. Luke 4, 5, 6, 7. Yea and as I think, it was Beelzebub the chief Lord of this Fair that invited him to buy of his Vanities; yea, would have made him Lord of the Fair, would he but have done him Reverence as he went thorow the Town. Yea, becauſe he was ſuch a perſon of Honour, Beelzebub had him from Street to Street and ſhewed him all the Kingdoms of
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