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The prisoners expressed the greatest concern at having incurred his Majesty's displeasure, and in a petition addressed to Colonel Winslow intreated him to detain a part of them as sureties for the appearance of the rest, who were desirous of visiting their families, and consoling them in their distress and misfortunes.

"Let me, I intreat you, take a dozen of your subjects with me to the Emerald City."

Did I not beg you, did I not intreat you, to leave the whole conduct to me?

His wife gave him a look which invited him in; and, while he was coming round, added, "Now, dearest Emma, let me intreat you to say and look every thing that may set his heart at ease, and incline him to be satisfied with the match.

Her mother, still confident of their engagement, and relying as warmly as ever on his constancy, had only been roused by Elinor's application, to intreat from Marianne greater openness towards them both; and this, with such tenderness towards her, such affection for Willoughby, and such a conviction of their future happiness in each other, that she wept with agony through the whole of it.

His first nam'd freinds he's confident will beare With this digression, to whom his carefull feare 20 Bowes & intreats their liking which once granted Will shew, they mist not any thing they wanted Epilogue If your vneasie seats haue tyr'd you so You're glad to leaue 'hem, there's none of you but know That haue a child, you loue to see it clipt In dandling armes, & if the authour slipt Into a fault because his actiue pen 5 Begott this child, & 'tis the loue of men To wish their heires long-liu'd he hopes you'l please T'exuse his errour, which is a disease Of loue to his own offspring, & so ties Him to be thus indulgent.

for this small Circumference must stand, For the imagind Surface of much land, Of many kingdomes, and since many a mile, Should here be measurd out, our muse intreats, Your thoughts to helpe poore Art.