Weighed anchor about five morn, and plied till about noon, and then anchored. This day, at morn, went about the general to council: the result was, the fleet should ply near, as with convenience, to the Texel, to prevent a conjunction of those ships there with Admiral [Maarten] Tromp; […]

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Their mightie ſtrokes their haberieons diſmayld, / And naked made each others manly ſpalles; […]

The morning after he had joined the church, many of his neighbors, in congratulating him upon his new departure, said to him: Well, Sam, I hope you. will stick, whereupon Mr. Jones remarked that he liked a religion with stickability in it, and a man with stickability in him.