Vulgar words in History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1607b (Page 1)
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"For the whole country," said Barneveld, "would swarm with Jesuits, priests, and monks, with calumnies and corruptions--the machinery by which the enemy is wont to produce discord, relying for success upon the well-known maxim of Philip of Macedon, who considered no city impregnable into which he could send an ass laden with gold."