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The Consolidator - or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Daniel Defoe
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Assignment, or deed of Gift of all his Dominions to the Grandson of
this Gallunarian Monarch.

By Vertue of this Gift, or Legacy, as soon as the King dyed, who was
then languishing, and as the other Parry alledg'd, not in a very good
capacity to make a Will; the Gallunarian King sent his Grandson to
seize upon the Crown, and backing him with suitable Forces, took
Possession of all his strong Fortifications and Frontiers.

Nor was this all, the Man with the Lip indeed talkt big, and
threatned War immediately, but the Solunarians were so unsettl'd at
Home, so unprepar'd for War, having but just dismist their Auxiliar
Troops, and disbanded their own, and the Prince was so ill serv'd by
his Subjects, that both he and a Powerful Neighbour, Nations in the
same Interest, were meerly Bullyed by this Gallunarian; and as he
threatned immediately to Invade them, which they were then in no
Condition to prevent, he forc'd them both to submit to his Demand,
tacitely allow what he had done in breaking the Treaty with him, and
at last openly acknowledge his new King.

This was indeed a most unaccountable Step, but there was a necessity
to plead, for he was at their very Doors with his Forces; and this
Neighbouring People, who they call Mogenites, could not resist him
without help from the Solunarians, which they were very backward in,
notwithstanding the earnest Sollicitations of their Prince, and
notwithstanding they were oblig'd to do it by a solemn Treaty.

These delays oblig'd them to this strange Step of acknowledging the
Invasion of their Enemy, and pulling off the Hat to the New King he
had set up.
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