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“The seed of Hagar laughing, as it were, to view the Christian pow’er so weak, so mean; begins the lands, as though their own, to share ere won, among the conqu’ering Hagarene; such forgèd title and false style they bear claiming the famous name of Saracene: Thus with false reck’oning would they strip and spoil calling it theirs, that noble alien soil.

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