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| Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the inhabiters of Mesopotamia, and of Jewry, and of Capadocia, of Pontus and Asia, Phrigia and Pamphilia, of Egipte, and of the parties of Libia, whiche is beside Siren, and straungers of Rome, Jewes and Proselites, Grekes and Arrabians, we have heard them speake in our owne tongues the great weorkes of God. Her prose echoes the Biblical text--"Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth"--combining the stories of the wrongful patriarchs Lot and Macbeth with Biblical prophecy in a way that adds a new, terrifying meaning to the story of Patricia and John Christopher (Rev. The extremities, of course, meet: "in very deed, like as Ireland, a part of Scotland, Laplond, and Groneland, being the uttermost parts of our side of the World, are as good as savage: so also be the uttermost inhabiters of the Westindies, namely Canada, Baccalea [Newfoundland], Brasilie, and Petagon, which are descended of the Eastindies" (120-21). |
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