Posession of what is none of his own, is an ill thing, and he that
may be hufft into one ill Action, may by Consequence be hufft into
another, and so into any thing.

'What will they say for doing it? we have heard there has been in the
World you came from, a way found out to own Kings de Facto, but not
de Jure; if they will fly to that ridiculous Shift, let them tell the
World so, that we may know what they mean, for those foolish things
are not known here.

'If they own'd the King of Ebronia voluntarily, and acknowledg'd his
Right as we thought they had; how then can this young Gentleman have
a Title, unless they have found out a new Division, and so will have
two Kings of Ebronia, make them Partners, and have a Gallunarian King
of Ebronia, and a Mogenite King of Ebronia, both together?

'Our Lunar Nations, Princes and States, whatever they may do in your
World, always seek for some Pretences at least to make their Actions
seem Honest, whither they are so or no; and therefore they generally
publish Memorials, Manifesto's and Declarations, of their Reasons
why, and on what account they do so, or so; that those who have any
Grounds to charge them with Unjustice, may be answer'd, and silenc'd;
'tis for the People in your Country, to fall upon their Neighbours,
only because they will do it, and make probability of Conquest, a
sufficient Reason of Conquest; the Lunarian Nations are seldom so
destitute of Modesty, but that they will make a shew of Justice, and
make out the Reasons of their Proceedings; and tho' sometimes we find
even the Reasons given for some Actions are weak enough; yet it is a
bad Cause indeed, that can neither have a true Reason, nor a
pretended one. The custom of the Moon has oblig'd us to show so much